Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

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Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
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Established1990
LocationMeguro, Tokyo, Japan
Visitors415,000 (2008)[1]
DirectorYoshiharu Fukuhara (2000–), See: Arinobu Fukuhara
Websitetopmuseum.jp
Basement exhibition room, August 2011

The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (東京都写真美術館, Tōkyō-to Shashin Bijutsukan) is an art museum concentrating on photography.

As the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, it was founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo. The museum also has a movie theater.

Until 2014, the museum nicknamed itself "Syabi" (pronounced shabi);[2] since 2016, it has called itself "Top Museum".

  1. ^ Annual Report: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography 2008-09 (PDF) (in Japanese), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, retrieved 2011-01-13
  2. ^ As is common in Japanese, this name is derived from the first mora of each of two words, here shashin (photo) and bijutsu (art). The use of "sy" rather than "sh" results from romanization in Kunrei or Nihon rather than Hepburn style.