The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum,founded in 1926,has been home to exhibitions of a wide variety of Japanese art organizations for over seventy years.

After the renovation of its building in 1975,special exhibitions planned by the curators were held in addition to those exhibitions of contemporary Japanese artists'groups in the rental galleries. The museum also provided art lectures and workshops,with the open use of its art library to the public.

The museum now holds two kinds of exhibitions;one which is mentioned above,in the rental galleries,by contemporary artists whose works include oil paintings,traditional-style Japanese paintings, sculptures, crafts, graphic designs, calligraphy, etc

The other is special exhibitions organized in cooperation with newspaper and TV companies in the Museum Gallery.


Opening hours: From 9:00 to 17:00h. Closed on Mondays.