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Japan · Ueno-kōen
National Museum of Western Art
国立西洋美術館
世界遺産に登録されたル・コルビュジエ設計の建物で、松方コレクションなど西洋美術の傑作を鑑賞できる美術館です。
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The National Museum of Western Art is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition. The museum is in the Ueno Park in Taitō, central Tokyo. It received 1,162,345 visitors in 2016.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Notable Works
- 睡蓮―柳の反映Museum PDF
- アルジェリア風のパリの女たちWikipedia (ja)
- 睡蓮Wikipedia (ja)
Museum basics
- Founded
- 1959
- Architect
- ル・コルビュジエ
- Building completed
- 1959
- Renovated
- —
- Director
- —
- Operated by
- 独立行政法人国立美術館
- Annual visitors
- 1,162,345
- National treasures
- —
- Important cultural properties
- 1
- Site area
- —
- Floor area
- 17,369 m²
- Exhibition area
- —
- 無限成長建築
- 19世紀ホール
- piloti
Sources
The structured data and prose on this page are grounded in the following primary sources.
- Official website — nmwa.go.jp ↗
- Wikipedia (Japanese) ↗CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikipedia (English) ↗CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikidata — Q1362629 ↗CC0
- Official PDF — プレスリリース（日本語）(約419KB) ↗1 pages
- Official PDF — 記者レク当日配布資料(約573KB) ↗4 pages
- Official PDF — 最新版 ↗9 pages
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