The Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of History opened in 1989 as a facility to preserve, research, and display artifacts from the medieval port town, market town, and temple town known as the Kusado Sengen Town ruins. Since then, the museum has made efforts to showcase donated materials, such as documents collected or created by Kan Chazan, a late Edo period Chinese poetry writer, educator, and Confucian scholar from Kannabe in Bingo Province (now Kannabe Town, Fukuyama City), as well as the Moriya Hisashi Collection, one of Japan’s largest collections of old maps, rotating the exhibits roughly every two months.