A 19th-century scale model of a daimyo lord's feudal mansion will be restored and turned into a major exhibit at Vienna's Museum of Ethnology from around 2016.
The 1:18 scale wooden model will be the central display in a wing of the Hofburg Imperial Palace that houses the museum under the theme of "Japan coming to Austria."
Standing on a 14-sq.-meter base, it was sent by the Japanese government during the Meiji Era for the fifth world exhibition, held in Vienna in 1873. It is not thought to have been modeled after any actual building.