Visit Duration
90 minutes
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
東京都現代美術館Koto, Tokyo
Museum
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is a public art museum on the northern edge of Kiba Park in Koto Ward, Tokyo. It opened in March 1995 in a building designed by Takahiko Yanagisawa and his firm TAK, and its total floor area of about 33,000 square metres makes it one of the largest art museum buildings in Japan. A long, glass-walled hall faces the greenery of the park and fills with natural light.
The permanent collection holds about 5,700 works by Japanese and international artists from the postwar years to the present. The galleries on the first floor trace about thirty years of art up to the 1970s, while those on the third floor show a range of contemporary trends, mostly by living artists. Pop art works include Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe and Roy Lichtenstein's Girl with Hair Ribbon. The museum reopened in March 2019 after a renovation and has a large art library.
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