Temple
Gokoku-in
Taito•348m(4 min walk)
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
東京都美術館Taito, Tokyo
Museum
What makes this place special?
At a Glance
The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum is a public art museum in Ueno Park, Taito Ward, Tokyo. It opened on May 1, 1926, as the Tokyo Prefectural Art Museum, the first public art museum in Japan, and took its present name in 1943. The current building, designed by the modernist architect Kunio Maekawa, dates from 1975.
The original museum was funded by a donation from the coal merchant Sato Keitaro and became a venue for exhibitions by artists' groups. Maekawa's building was designed with the greenery of Ueno Park in mind. The collection moved to the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in 1995, and since then the museum has mainly hosted open-call and special exhibitions. It reopened after a major renovation in 2012.
Goshuin within a short walk
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Visit Duration
90 minutes
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