Brother Museum
building in Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Brother Museum is a corporate museum located in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by Brother Industries.
Summary
It opened in March 2005 under the name "Brother Communication Space" and changed its name to the current one in January 2018.
The museum is divided into the "Product Zone", which introduces new products and businesses of Brother Industries; the "History Zone", which displays a knitting machine, typewriters, office equipment such as facsimiles and printers, and information and communication devices that were once manufactured by Brother Industries; and the "Sewing Machine Zone", which displays sewing machines collected from around the world. There is also a "Reference Room" with a collection of historical documents and books related to Brother Industries, and a hall that can accommodate 80 people.
The public source identifies “Brother Museum” as building in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Brother, Museum and building.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11334476. Authority coordinates are 35.119, 136.921. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005 and 2018.
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This entry incorporates text from “Brother Museum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.