Nagoya City Art Museum

Designed by the renowned architect Kisho Kurokawa, the building incorporates references to Japanese traditional forms and local motifs. The museum features a unique collection focused on four principal areas: local art from the Nagoya cultural region, the École de Paris, the Mexican Renaissance, and postwar and contemporary art.

ABOUT

The Nagoya City Art Museum is an art museum in Naka-ku, Nagoya, Nagoya, Japan, located in Shirakawa Park. It opened on 22 April 1988. Designed by Kisho Kurokawa, the museum was planned in the early 1980s, while collection building began in 1983.

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Notable Works

• ファブニール・ドラゴンⅡWikipedia (ja)

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Sources

The structured data and prose on this page are grounded in the following primary sources.

• Official website — art-museum.city.nagoya.jp ↗
• Wikipedia (Japanese) ↗CC BY-SA 4.0
• Wikipedia (English) ↗CC BY-SA 4.0
• Wikidata — Q469573 ↗CC0
• Official PDF — チラシ(PDF:３MB) ↗2 pages
• Official PDF — 展覧会構成(PDF:1MB) ↗4 pages
• Official PDF — 2026年度カレンダー（PDF：1MB） ↗1 pages

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