National Museum of Western Art
Tokyo, Japan
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Museum Address
7-7 Uenokoen, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0007, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Ticket Prices
¥500 (under 18 free)
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2 artists in database
The National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo opened in 1959 to house the Matsukata Collection, European art gathered by industrialist Kōjirō Matsukata in the 1920s that remained in France through World War II. As a condition of its return to Japan, the French government required a French architect for the building, and Le Corbusier designed the Main Building, his only work in East Asia.
The museum holds about 4,500 works from the 14th through early 20th centuries. Highlights include Paul Signac's The Port of Saint-Tropez (1901) and Johannes Vermeer's Saint Praxedis (1655), one of a small number of paintings attributed to the artist.
The collection also includes drawings, prints, and sculpture, among them works by Auguste Rodin acquired as part of Matsukata's original purchases.
National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, Japan houses 2 masterpieces in our database.
Visiting National Museum of Western Art
The National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo holds Japan's most comprehensive collection of Western art. The main building, designed by Le Corbusier, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The core collection came from Matsukata Kōjirō, a Japanese industrialist who amassed Impressionist paintings and Rodin sculptures in early 20th-century Paris. France returned the collection to Japan in 1959.
The museum is in Ueno Park, Tokyo's cultural district. Le Corbusier's 1959 building, his only work in East Asia, stands alongside other major museums in the park.
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