In the Art Museum the Tokugawa are more than 12 thousand items, and the collection is based upon an heirloom of the clan Owari-Tokugawa. One of the most outstanding exhibits is the extant scroll with the monument of Japanese literature "the Tale of genjii". Such scrolls in Japan survived only three.

The Museum was founded in 1935 and was not damaged during the Second world war and the postwar period. Year 50-year anniversary – 1985 – in the Museum of reconstruction began, which lasted two years.

An heirloom of the family of Owari-Tokugawa never changed the feudal clans, perhaps that is why they are in such quantity has survived to the present time. Many of these items are in excellent preservation. The most valuable in the collection are considered as objects and works of art that belonged to Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun who founded his own government. From the reign of Tokugawa Ieyasu began the Edo period, which lasted two and a half centuries – from 1603 to 1868. The Edo period is characterized by cessation of internecine warfare, the development of Japanese national identity, economy, arts, literature, and self-imposed isolation of the country from the rest of the world.

Museum visitors can see a collection of luxury items XII century, ancient weapons and armour, costumes and masks, lacquer ware, ceramics, calligraphy and paintings. Many of the exhibits are national treasures, monuments or important art objects.

Around the Museum you will find a garden, restored in 2001-2004. In its Western part there is the building of the library Jose, Bunko. It stores the samples of the literature of the Edo period, including books from the collection of the first shogun – more than three thousand volumes, and books in Chinese and other languages, geographical maps. Here once a year display with the original Tale of genjii," written by the court lady Murasaki of Shikibu. The exhibit is very fragile, so the rest of the time is exhibited only a copy of the scroll.