It keeps two thousand several hundred artworks which fortunately escaped the major air raid on Kobe City out of over the 10,000 artworks collected by the three generations of Junsaku NAKAMURA, Junichi NAKAMURA and Junsuke NAKAMURA who made a fortune in the shipping business.
海運業で財を成した中村準策・準一・準佑が三代にわたって収集した一万点以上の美術品のうち、神戸市の大空襲を運良く免れた2千数百点を収蔵している。