The Konosuke Matsushita Museum (松下幸之助歴史館) is a corporate museum operated by Panasonic in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan. Until September 2008, the museum was called the Matsushita Electric Industrial History Museum (松下電器歴史館), but it was changed to its current name on October 1, 2008, to coordinate with the renaming of the company to Panasonic. The museum was temporarily closed in October 2017 and reopened in March 2018. It was revived as the Panasonic Museum (パナソニック ミュージアム), with the former history museum renovated into the Hall of Manufacturing Ingenuity (ものづくりイズム館).[1]
Overview
The Matsushita Electric History Museum is a corporate museum opened in March 1968 by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (currently Panasonic) as one of the projects to commemorate its 50th founding anniversary. There are approximately 600 exhibits. The museum building is a renovated company headquarters constructed in 1933. On March 7, 1995, the museum's interior was fully renovated to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Konosuke Matsushita's birth.
The museum exhibits Konosuke Matsushita's life and the history of Panasonic up to the present. The section featuring advertisements and other materials spanning from the company's founding to the 1980s has been particularly well received by visitors. The museum's high-definition