Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum

Established	1926 (1926)
Location	Tokyo, Japan
Coordinates	35°43′02″N 139°46′22″E / 35.7172°N 139.7729°E / 35.7172; 139.7729
Type	Art museum
Collection size	49 objects
Architect	Kunio Maekawa
Public transit access	JU JK JY JJ G H Ueno Station (with JR East and Tokyo Metro) JK JY Uguisudani Station (with JR East) KS Keisei Ueno Station (with Keisei Electric Railway)
Website	www.tobikan.jp/en/index.html

The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (東京都美術館, Tōkyōto Bijutsukan) is a museum of art located in Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefectural government.^[1] 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 museum's current building was constructed in 1975 and designed by modernist architect Kunio Maekawa, remaining one his most well-known works today.

Currently, the museum is perhaps best known for showing high-profile temporary exhibitions of both Japanese and international modern art, recently showing major retrospectives of Tarō Okamoto, Isamu Noguchi, Edvard Munch, and Tsuguharu Foujita. Highlights of the museum’s permanent collection include twelve twentieth-century sculptures and reliefs that are on permanent display throughout the museum, as well as a collection of calligraphic works.