National Museum of Western Art
The National Museum of Western Art (国立西洋美術館, Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan, lit. "National Western Art Museum", NMWA) is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition.
This article is about the art museum in Tokyo, Japan. For other uses, see NMWA (disambiguation).UNESCO World Heritage Site
Musée National des Beaux-Arts de l’Occident
7-7 Ueno Imperial Grant Park, Taitō, Tokyo, Japan
Cultural: (i), (ii), (vi)
2016 (40th Session)
0.93 ha (0.0036 sq mi)
116.17 ha (0.4485 sq mi)
Exhibitions[edit]
The museum is involved in the development and organization of a special exhibition every year. These exhibitions feature works on loan from private collections and museums both in and out of Japan.[3] In 1963, NMWA created a splash on the international art scene by bringing together 450 works by Marc Chagall. The exhibition brought together Chagall's work from 15 countries, including 8 paintings lent from the Soviet Union; and it was believed to be the most comprehensive show mounted during the artist's lifetime.[4]
In January 2019, it was announced that the National Gallery, London will loan over 60 paintings for a two-venue tour of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo and the National Museum of Art, Osaka in 2020, the year of the Tokyo Olympics.[5] Included within the loaned collection will be Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers, which will travel to Japan for the first time.[6]
