| The Kitano Museum of Art (北野美術館, Kitano Bijutsukan), which opened in 1968 as the first private art museum in Nagano Prefecture,[2] is today run by a public interest incorporated foundation, in the Wakaho district, in the southeastern section of Nagano in Nagano Prefecture. [3] The museum is located next to the Yushimatenmangu Shrine, a branch of Yushima Tenman-gū which was founded in 458 in Bunkyō in Tokyo. The entrance to the museum is through the Yushimatenmangu Shrine. The museum includes a Japanese garden by Mirei Shigemori, a notable 20th century modern landscape architect, that was completed in 1965.[4] |
| Nagano Prefectural Art Museum (長野県立美術館, Nagano Kenritsu Bijutsukan) is a museum in Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture.[1] The museum first opened as the Shinano Art Museum Foundation, and is located next to the Zenkō-ji Buddhist Temple. Due to the deterioation of the building, it was reopened on April 10,2021 as the Nagano Prefectural Art Museum.[2] |
