\nNumber of visitors<\/th>\n | 351,184 (from January to December 2023) Total visitors from the opening: 7,071,926 (from June 1994 to December 2023)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/section>\n\nBackground to the museum’s establishment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n1976<\/th>\n | The Toyota Foundation funds research by the Architectural Institute of Japan Subcommittee for Survey of Pre-war Taisho-Showa Period Architecture, surveying the architecture of Meiji, Taisho, and Showa-period architecture of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works Sako Plant building etc. (Meiji period: 1868-1912; Taisho period: 1912-26; Showa period: 1926-89)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n1980<\/th>\n | Based on the survey results, the institute publishes “Architecture of modern Japan-Meiji, Taisho and Showa-Period buildings across Japan,” with coverage of the Sako plant.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n1987<\/th>\n | The Toyota Group establishes Former Toyoda Boshoku Sako Plant Building Survey Committee (headed by Professor Emeritus of Nagoya University Kishiro Iida) to evaluate a plan to use the Sako Plant as the group’s important industrial heritage, and starts surveying the building. In December, the “Sako Plant Building Survey Report” is created.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n1988<\/th>\n | Based on the report, the Toyota Foundation proposes to the Toyota Group a summary of the plan to reuse the building in the “Basic Report on TMP (Toyota Memorial Plaza) Project Detail Survey,” proposing the idea to build a commemorative museum as the group’s joint project.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n1990<\/th>\n | TMP Organizing Committee is launched.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n1991<\/th>\n | The construction of TMP is decided as a project by the Toyota Group. The basic design is started, evaluating basic concepts and how the construction should proceed. As a driving organization, a construction committee (headed by Toyota Motor Chairman Eiji Toyoda) is established.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n1992<\/th>\n | In May, the museum is officially named Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology. The construction ceremony is held in September.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n1994<\/th>\n | A completion ceremony is held on June 9. The museum is opened to the public on June 11, 100 years after the birth of Kiichiro Toyoda.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/section>\n\nThe number of visitors<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Current as of January 2024 Year established June 1994 Established by 17 Toyota Group companies (13 when the mu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":48647,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-new.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48764","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n Overview | \u30c8\u30e8\u30bf\u7523\u696d\u6280\u8853\u8a18\u5ff5\u9928<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n | |