Visit Duration
90 minutes
National Museum of Art, Osaka
国立国際美術館Kita, Osaka
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The National Museum of Art, Osaka is a contemporary art museum on Nakanoshima, the island between the Dojima and Tosabori rivers in central Osaka. Designed by César Pelli, it lies almost entirely underground, next to the Osaka Science Museum, and its visible structure is meant to suggest reeds waving in the wind. The entrance, auditorium, restaurant and shop are just below ground level, with galleries on the floors beneath.
Its collection of about 8,000 works, mostly from 1945 onward, is the largest collection of contemporary art in Japan, shown in themed displays that change several times a year. The museum grew out of the Expo Museum of Fine Arts built for Expo '70 in Suita, opened as a national museum in 1977 and moved to Nakanoshima in 2004. Works by Alexander Calder and Joan Miró carried over from the old building are part of the entrance.
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