Articles for the theme Museums and Galleries in Kyoto

Saga Arashiyama Museum of Arts & Culture, a large modern building and garden in Kyoto, is dedicated to the Hyakunin Isshu - a very famous anthology of classical poems.

If you're interested in the history of Japanese costumes and textiles, the Kyoto Costume Museum is a worthwhile visit. Models and dolls dressed in kimonos illustrate history over time.

In Moriyama, on the shores of Lake Biwa, Sagawa Art Museum displays works by Japanese artists at the crossroads of East and West, including ceramics and bronze sculptures.

Not far from the Heian Shrine is the very contemporary Miyako Messe complex. It hosts, among other things, a craft museum and a design museum.

Teradaya Inn: the historic Teradaya Inn in the Fushimi district of kyoto is associated with two historic incidents.

Why not make the most of your stay in Kyoto by living side by side with artists of the former imperial capital? With its art gallery and designer rooms, the Anteroom Hotel gives its visitors

Welcome to the largest railway museum in Japan!

The artist DOMOTO Insho (1891-1975) navigates among styles and media, ever experimenting, never ceasing to capsize conventions...

Imura Art Museum in Kyoto is a little-visited museum with a collection of European antiques, mainly French glassware and Arita porcelain from Kyushu.

The Old Mitsui Family Shimogamo Villa in Kyoto is the former family residence of the Mitsui clan close to Shimagamo Shrine.

Kyoto University Museum (KUM) is the oldest university museum in Japan and has a valuable, eclectic collection spanning humanities, natural history and engineering.

The Namikawa Cloisonné Museum in the Okazaki district of Kyoto is the Meiji Period house, studio and garden of the cloisonné master Namikawa Yasuyuki (1845-1927).

The Kyoto Municipal Museum of School History is housed in a former school and introduces the history of Japanese education from the Edo Period to the present day.

The Koryo Museum of Art in northern Kyoto has a large collection of Korean art including ceramics, paintings, screens and furniture.

The Japan Kanji Museum & Library in Gion, Kyoto has interactive and fun displays on the history and development of Chinese characters (kanji) in Japan.

Originally designed in 1933 to commemorate the coronation of Emperor Hirohito ceremony (1901-1989), this museum offers a permanent collection of two thousand one hundred pieces of art, including m

The Genji museum will allow you to enter Japan's Heian period to meet the radiant prince Hikaru Genji.

Rustling silk and flashes of colors, kimono from the Nishijin Textile Center perpetuate the ancient tradition of Kyoto kimonos.

"When you become so absorbed in your work that beauty naturally arises, your work becomes a true work of art"

Kawai Kanjiro in his essay, we do not work alone (1953).

Near Kyoto, the red pine forest that covers the mountains of Shiga, a classified nature reserve, is home to an unusual museum of East Asian art, lost in sovereign heights.

"As the smoke of incense, the mere presence of Kyoto exchange something at an altitude of mind, however, that a new noise is established, making visible new harmonics. "

A gallery devoted to Asian art, the Kyoto National Museum creates a dialogue about works from not only Japan but Korea and China as well.

Gekkeikan Sake Museum, Fushimi, Kyoto: read a guide to the historic sake brewing district of Fushimi in south Kyoto.

Museums In Kyoto: see a listing of museums in Kyoto including art galleries and private museums.

Read an article about Kyoto's Insho Domoto Museum. The Insho Domoto Museum of Fine Arts is located in northwestern Kyoto.

Sumiya Motenashi Museum. Read an article about the Sumiya Motenashi Museum, a former geisha teahouse in the Shimabara district of Kyoto.

Hosomi Museum: read a guide to the Hosomi Museum in Kyoto. The Hosomi Museum specializes in Japanese art from the Yayoi Period to the Edo Period.

Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art formerly Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art: read a guide to the Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art, which has over 2100 permanent exhibits.

The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto: read a guide to the The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.

Kyoto Museum for World Peace. Read an article on Ritsumeikan University's Kyoto Museum for World Peace.

Kyoto Aqueduct Museum. Read an article on Kyoto Aqueduct Museum known as the Lake Biwa Canal Museum of Kyoto.

Miho Museum. Guide to architect I.M. Pei's Miho Museum in Shiga, Japan - why it's a must-see, what's there and how to get there

The National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto hosts six to seven exhibitions per year for the pleasure of discovering the great names of Japanese or Western art and thematic staging.

Gallery on Jingu-michi Street leading to Heian-jingu, opened in 2002, Aoikaze has acquired its marks of nobility in the microcosm of art galleries in Kyoto.

Ryukoku Museum Kyoto in Kyoto is dedicated to Buddhist art detailing the spread of Buddhist culture from its birthplace in India, through China to Japan.

Matsumoto Sake Brewery in the Fushimi aea of south east Kyoto was founded in 1791, and continues to produce fine sake (nihonshu).

Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum Fushimi, Kyoto is located 5-10 minutes on foot from Keihan Railways Chushojima Station or Momoyama Goryu Mae Station.