National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto
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National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto 京都国立近代美術館
The Fumihiko Maki designed National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MoMAK), in Okazaki, is a wonderful place to spend an afternoon.
Exhibits
The permanent collection has nihonga (Japanese-style painting), Western-style painting, prints, sculpture, ceramics, crafts, and photography.
Big exhibits make their way here to the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto several times a year and the permanent collection is regularly rearranged.
Artists whose work is included in the permanent Nihonga collection at MoMAK include Murakami Kagaku, Koide Narashige, Yasui Sotaro and Murayama Tomoyoshi. Work by Western artists includes paintings by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Kurt Schwitters, Piet Mondrian and Edgar Degas.
National Museum of Modern Art, Okazaki, Kyoto
The National Museum of Modern Art is located in Okazaki, Kyoto, adjacent to the giant torii gate of Heian Shrine and opposite the Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art (formerly the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art)
Access & Hours
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (momak.go.jp)
Okazaki Enshoji-cho
Sakyo-ku
Kyoto
606-8344
Tel: 075 761 9617
Open: 9.30 am-5.00 pm (admission until 4:30 pm). Extended Hours: Frequently the museum has extended hours every Friday during special and travelling exhibitions until 9 pm with last admission at 8.30 pm.
Access: From JR/Kintetsu Kyoto Station (Kyoto-eki-mae boarding area A1); Kyoto City Bus No. 5 (toward Iwakura Soshajo). Get off at Kyoto Kaikan Bijutsukan-mae. From Hankyu Karasuma Station/Kawaramachi Station or Keihan Sanjo Station Kyoto City Bus No. 5 (toward Iwakura Soshajo). Get off at Kyoto Kaikan Bijutsukan-mae. Or a five-minute walk from the Higashiyama Station on the Tozai subway line of the Kyoto subway.
The National Museum of Modern Art is in the Okazaki museum area of Kyoto, west of the tall torii gate of Heian Shrine and across the road from the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art.
National Museum of Modern Art, Okazaki, Kyoto
National Museum of Modern Art, Okazaki, Kyoto
