This museum was constructed in 1969 in Isuien Garden, kaiyushiki-shakkei garden (Japanese style borrowed landscape garden with a path around a central pond) which was bought in 1939 and organized by the Nakamura family.
中村家が1939年に買い受けて整備した回遊式借景庭園の依水園の中に、1969年に建設した。