museums

MORI Building Digital Art Museum teamLab Borderless

It is the first digital art museum in the world that is located on the island of Odaiba, in a space of 10,000 square meters in which images projected by computers stimulate the five senses of visitors. It is an interactive experience where works made of lights, shapes and colors are displayed in five different areas and evolve through the intervention of people, so, depending on the moment, the projections can vary being an incredible experience.


MORI Building Digital Art Museum teamLab Borderless, Tokio, Japón     


National Museum of Modern Art

The National Museum of Modern Art is located inside the Kita-no-Maru park. Paintings, prints, watercolors, drawings and sculptures from the Meiji period to the present are displayed chronologically. The permanent exhibition consists of about 200 works of art of various genres, such as paintings and sculptures, of a total of 12,000 pieces that the collection has. Temporary exhibitions are also held, not only works of Japanese art, but also foreign ones.



Museo Nacional de Atte Moderno de Tokio, Japón


Contemporary Art Museum

One of the great museums of the city (now closed until March 2019) is located in a huge building designed by the architect Takahiko Yanagisawa. Inside you can see a full range of contemporary art masterpieces from Japan and abroad, such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jiro Yoshihara, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Katsura Kunakoshi and Frank Stella.



It is 4,000 m2 distributed in three levels of galleries for temporary exhibitions, and 3,000 m2 on two levels for the permanent collection of the museum, the largest contemporary art in the country.



Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Tokio, Japón



National Art Center


The National Art Center was inaugurated in 2007 and has a space of almost 48,000 m2 distributed over five floors, 14,000m2 are dedicated to exhibitions making it the largest of all museums in Japan. The funny thing is that it does not have its own permanent collection, but that all exhibitions are temporary. Sometimes entry is charged and sometimes not.



The building is magnificent and was designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa. It has a transparent glass facade in the form of waves that has made it a tourist attraction that many come to admire, inside you can eat in the famous Brasserie Paul Bocuse restaurant.



Centro Nacional de Arte en Toppongi; Tokio, Japón


Tokyo National Museum

Founded in 1872, it is not only the oldest and most extensive museum in Japan, but the one that preserves the greatest amount of national treasures in the country. Its collection includes about 117,000 objects, including 89 national treasures and 643 cultural heritage. In the general culture exhibition about 3,000 objects are displayed, offering a panorama of the history of traditional Japanese art in five separate buildings: the Honkan Gallery, the Asian Gallery, Hyokeikan, Heiseikan, and the Horyuji Treasures Gallery.




Museo Nacional de Tokio, Japón




Nezu Museum


Kaichiro was a 19th-century entrepreneur, passionate about Japanese and Asian premodern art, who compiled a private collection of some 4,000 pieces that encompassed a wide range of genres: paintings, calligraphy, sculptures, metallurgy, ceramics, lacquers, woodwork and bamboo and textiles.


The museum is a combination of traditional and modern style, designed by architect Kengo Kuma, which currently houses 7,400 objects. Several Buddhist statues and ancient Chinese coins (including ancestral bronzes) are permanently exhibited. Then, seven temporary exhibitions present the rest of the museum's collection on a rotating basis according to the theme



Museo Nezu, Tokio, Japón





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