Konosuke Matsushita Museum / 1918
The exterior of the museum building emulates the exterior of the Panasonic headquarters building constructed in 1933. The museum was opened in 1968 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of Matsushita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works (now Panasonic). The Konosuke Matsushita Museum traces the historical development of Japan's household appliances industry. (For more information, see the January 2010 issue of the PR magazine pla-topia.) http://panasonic.co.jp/history/museum/
Konosuke Matsushita was born in Wakayama Prefecture in 1894. He left school in his fourth year of elementary school and began serving apprenticeship in Osaka. He entered a company called Osaka Electric Light Company at the age of fifteen. Subsequently, he established Matsushita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works in Ohiraki, Osaka (currently Ohiraki, Fukushima Ward, Osaka City) in 1918. The history of the Panasonic Group started from this time.
