1.Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art | ||||||
The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art (岡山県立美術館, Okayama Kenritsu Bijutsukan) is located in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture.[1] The museum, by architects Okada & Associates, opened in 1988 and has a collection of around two thousand works.[2][3] | ||||||
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2.Okayama Orient Museum | ||||||
Okayama Orient Museum (岡山市立オリエント美術館, Okayama Shiritsu Oriento Bijutsukan) is a museum of Ancient Near Eastern, Roman provincial, Byzantine, Sassanian, and Islamic Art in Kita-ku, Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. As of 2007 there were some 4,852 items, including a winged Assyrian relief from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II in Nimrud, Mesopotamia, acquired to mark the institution's 25th anniversary.[1] | ||||||
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3.Hayashibara Museum of Art | ||||||
The Hayashibara Museum of Art (林原美術館, Hayashibara Bijutsukan) is an art museum owned by the Hayashibara Group, and located at 2-7-15 Marunouchi, Kita-ku, Okayama, the site of a former guesthouse beside the inner moat of Okayama Castle. Its 6,832 square meter interior was designed by Kunio Maekawa. The owner of the collection was Ichiro Hayashibara, and the museum was opened in 1964, to honor his final wishes to display his collection to the public after his death. The museum owns approximately 10,000 artifacts from Hayashibara's personal collection, including swords, armor, and pottery collected by Mr. Hayashibara, and Noh costumes, furniture, paintings, and Japanese lacquer from the Ikeda clan. The museum itself has limited space, so exhibits are rotated four to five times per year.[1] | ||||||
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4.Ohara Museum of Art | ||||||
The Ohara Museum of Art (大原美術館, Ōhara Bijutsukan) in Kurashiki was the first collection of Western art to be permanently exhibited in Japan. The museum opened in 1930 and originally consisted almost entirely of French paintings and sculptures of the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection has now expanded to include paintings of the Italian Renaissance and of the Dutch and Flemish 17th century. Well-known American and Italian artists of the 20th century are also included in the collection. | ||||||
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5.Yumeji Art Museum | ||||||
Yumeji Art Museum (夢二郷土美術館, Yumeji Kyōdo Bijutsukan) is an art museum in Okayama Prefecture split between the main museum in Naka-ku, Okayama and the Yumeji Seika and Shonen Sanso annex built in Setouchi, the birthplace of Yumeji Takehisa, a poet and artist who was active in the early 1900s. | ||||||
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6.Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art | ||||||
The Nagi Museum Of Contemporary Art (Nagi MOCA) (奈義町現代美術館, Nagi-chō Gendai Bijutsukan) is a museum in Nagi, Okayama, Japan. It was jointly created by architect Arata Isozaki and artists whose works are displayed.[1][2] | ||||||
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