The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts (東京芸術大学大学美術館, Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku Daigaku Bijutsukan) opened in Ueno Park, Taitō, Tokyo, Japan, in 1999, replacing the University's former Art Museum.[1] The collection, numbering some thirty thousand works of art,[2] includes twenty-three National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties,[2] among them a Nara period scroll of the Illustrated Sutra of Cause and Effect and paintings by Asai Chū, Harada Naojirō, Hashimoto Gahō, Kanō Hōgai, Ogata Kōrin, Takahashi Yuichi, and Uemura Shōen.[3][4] | ||||||
Location: Ueno Park, Taitō, Tokyo, Japan | ||||||
Opened: 1999[1] | ||||||
Type: University museum | ||||||