Okayama Orient Museum

The Okayama Orient Museum is a museum of the ancient Middle East, Roman Province, Byzantine, Sassanid and Islamic art in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. As of 2007, there were about 4,885 items, including winged Assyrian reliefs. The museum is a prize design from Okada & Associates. The museum was built with a donation in 1947 of ancient oriental art from the Okayama Gakuen Educational Foundation (then President: the late Shinjiro Yasuhara).