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The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts 東京芸術大学大学美術館

Museum in Toride, Ibaraki and Tokyo.

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The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts — 東京芸術大学大学美術館
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About this museum

The University Art Museum at the Tokyo University of the Arts (東京藝術大学大学美術館, Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku Daigaku Bijutsukan) is an art museum that opened in Omonma, Toride, Ibaraki, Japan in 1994, followed by the Ueno Pavilion in Ueno Park, Taitō, Tokyo, Japan, which opened in 1999.

The collection, numbering some thirty thousand works of art, includes twenty-three National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties, 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.

LocationUeno-kōen, Tokyo (上野公園 東京都)
Coordinates35.88435, 140.11488 · Open in Google Maps
Nearest stationAraki Station (2.6 km)
TypeUniversity museum
ArchitectKijo Rokkaku
Official websitehttps://www.geidai.ac.jp/museum/

Planning a visit? Admission, opening hours and current exhibitions are announced on the museum's official website — please check there before you go.

Basic data from Wikidata (CC0). About text adapted from the Wikipedia article University Art Museum (Tokyo University of the Arts) by its contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0). Details may change; the museum's official website is the authoritative source.

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