To provide a method for manufacturing a metal-inorganic particle composite with superior characteristics, which can be formed into a complicated configuration without geometrical restriction, at low cost and with adequate productivity.

The method for manufacturing the metal-inorganic particle composite consisting of metal and inorganic particles is characterized by (a) filling the inorganic particles in a heat resistant vessel having an opening on its top, and sintering them, (b) mounting the metal on the sintered compact of the above inorganic particles as accommodated state in the above heat resistant vessel, (c) heating it at a melting point of the above metal or higher to make molten metal impregnated in the above sintered compact of inorganic particles, and (d) cooling and taking out a hardened article from the above heat resistant vessel.