Artizon Museum (Chuo, Tokyo, Japan)

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At a Glance

Artizon Museum is a private art museum in the Kyobashi district of Chuo Ward, Tokyo, run by the Ishibashi Foundation. It opened in 1952 as the Bridgestone Museum of Art, founded by Ishibashi Shojiro, the founder of Bridgestone, to show the art he had collected. The name Artizon, adopted in 2019, joins the words art and horizon.

The museum reopened in January 2020 on the first to sixth floors of the Museum Tower Kyobashi, after the old headquarters building was rebuilt. Its core is Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting by artists such as Degas, Renoir, Manet, Van Gogh and Monet, together with twentieth-century Japanese, European and American art and ancient Greek ceramics. A Glass Bench by Kuramata Shiro stands permanently at the sixth-floor entrance.