Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art

The Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (静岡県立美術館, Shizuoka Kenritsu Bijutsukan) is a prefectural museum in Shizuoka City, Japan, created in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the inauguration of the Shizuoka Prefectural Assembly. Collection of the Main Building The Main Building houses a.o. a Gallery of Prefecture Residents with work from local Japanese artists, mostly of lesser interest to an international public. The bulk of the collection on show is constituted mostly of Japanese and some Western works of art, primarily focused on landscape painting . , The museum also has a fine collection of Japanese drawings and prints, as well as a number of prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi , Marco Ricci , etc., and watercolours by Joseph Mallord William Turner and John Robert Cozens . European. Sculpture Collection in the new wing The main attraction of this museum is its lofty 3.025 m 2 ( 32,560 ft 2 ) domed Rodin Wing (designed by the Shizuoka office of Nissoken Architects and Engineers, Tokyo) which opened in March 1994 , and offers a splendid home to a collection of thirty-two sculptures by the renowned French artist Auguste Rodin , including certified versions of The Thinker , The Gates of Hell , The Burghers of Calais , ... and some Monuments to great artists, such as James McNeill Whistler , Claude Lorrain , Jules Bastien-Lepage , Charles Baudelaire or Honoré de Balzac .