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. | ||||||
Location: Tokyo, Japan | ||||||
Opened: 1926 (1926) | ||||||
Type: Art museum | ||||||
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)
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