Art Museum
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
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Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum is an art museum in Ueno-kōen, Japan.
About Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (東京都美術館, Tōkyōto Bijutsukan) is a museum of art located in Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan. The first public art museum in Japan, it opened in 1926 as the Tokyo Prefectural Art Museum and was renamed in 1943 after Tokyo became a metropolitan prefecture. The original building was replaced by one built in 1975 designed by modernist architect Kunio Maekawa.
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum by the numbers
- Founded
- 1926
- Visitors / year
- 1,049,183
Plan your visit
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
- Website
- www.tobikan.jp
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