National Museum of Western Art (NMWA) - Tokyo
Musée national d'art occidental
Tokyo (Japon)
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13 sections and 135 items available
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7-7 Ueno-koen, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0007
Phone : +81-3-3828-5131
Fax : +81-3-3828-5135
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- JR Yamanote Line, Ueno Station, Park Exit
- Keisei Line, Ueno Station
- Ginza and Hibiya Subway Lines, Ueno Station
Hours:
Open daily excepted monday
Nocturne friday
9:30 a.m. - 05:00 p.m.17:00 (Friday 08:00 p.m.)
Admission ends 30 minutes before closing time
Admissions :
Adults : 420 ¥
College students : 130 ¥
High school students : 70 ¥
Junior high school students or younger/Those over the age of 65/Those with physical or mental disabilitiesand their attendants : Free
Free admission for museum collection the second and the fourth Saturdays of each month, and November 3.
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The Main Building designed by the French architect Le Corbusier displays pre-18th century paintings, including those by Ritzos, Van Cleve, Veronese, Rubens, Van Ruysdael, and Ribera. Many of these paintings are religious paintings featuring imagery from Christianity. The New Wing displays 19th to early 20th century French paintings, including works by Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Moreau. The galleries also feature works by the next generation of artists, such as Marquet, Picasso, Soutin, Ernst, Miro, Dubuffet and Pollock.
The NMWA drawing collection centers on works by such 18th to 19th century French artists as Boucher, Fragonard, Delacroix, Moreau, Rodin, and Cezanne. The prints collection features works by Durer, Holbein, Rembrandt, Callot, Piranesi, Goya, and Klinger, ranging from the 15th century through the early 20th century. Thematically arranged exhibitions from these prints and drawings collections are held regularly in one gallery of the New Wing.
The NMWA also houses some 58 sculptures by Auguste Rodin, including three works displayed in the museum's forecourt, the Thinker, the Gates of Hell, and the Burghers of Calais. Other pre and post Rodin sculptors featured in the collection include Carpeaux, Bourdelle and Maillol.
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The NMWA was established in 1959 around the core Matsukata Collection as Japan's museum specializing in Western art.
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