Kyoto Cultural Foundation

The Kyoto Cultural Foundation (公益財団法人京都文化財団) is a public-interest incorporated foundation established in August 1986. Its stated purpose is to carry out creative activities for a new Kyoto culture based on Kyoto's cultural traditions, to encourage and nurture artistic and cultural creation, and to contribute to the rich creation and development of Kyoto culture as the center of Japanese culture through the protection of cultural properties. It manages and operates the Kyoto Prefectural Kyoto Cultural Museum, the Kyoto Prefectural Cultural Arts Hall, the Kyoto Prefectural Citizens' Hall, and the Kyoto Prefectural Domoto Insho Museum of Fine Arts, and it maintains a Cultural Property Protection Fund engaged in lending and awareness activities for the protection of cultural properties. On April 1, 2013, it received certification from Kyoto Prefecture and restarted as the public-interest incorporated foundation Kyoto Cultural Foundation.

The Kyoto Cultural Foundation was established in August 1986 with the purpose of carrying out creative activities for a new Kyoto culture based on Kyoto's cultural traditions, encouraging and nurturing artistic and cultural creation, and contributing to the rich creation and development of Kyoto culture as the center of Japanese culture through the protection of cultural properties. It manages and operates the Kyoto Prefectural Kyoto Cultural Museum, the Kyoto Prefectural Cultural Arts Hall, the Kyoto Prefectural Citizens' Hall, and the Kyoto Prefectural Domoto Insho Museum of Fine Arts, and it maintains a Cultural Property Protection Fund for lending and awareness activities related to the protection of cultural properties. On April 1, 2013, it received certification from Kyoto Prefecture and restarted as the public-interest incorporated foundation Kyoto Cultural Foundation. The Cultural Property Protection Fund traces its origins to the Kyoto Prefectural Cultural Property Protection Fund, which was established with investment from Kyoto Prefecture to secure funds for cultural property protection and to promote awareness of the importance of cultural property preservation; that fund had been active since March 1965 and was integrated into and succeeded by the public-interest incorporated foundation Kyoto Cultural Foundation on April 1, 1999, continuing as the Cultural Property Protection Fund Office.

1. 1公益財団法人京都文化財団 - 京都府京都文化博物館bunpaku.or.jp
2. 2文化財保護基金 - 京都府京都文化博物館bunpaku.or.jp
3. 3Kyoto Cultural Foundationwikidata.org