Kyoto Kyocera Museum of Art

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The building, from 1933, is the oldest public art museum still in its original premises.

Built in 1933 as the ‘Kyoto Memorial Museum for the Great Ceremony’ (for the coronation of Emperor Shōwa), it is the oldest public museum building in Japan still in use in its original structure. Closed for works from 2017, it reopened in 2020 after a renovation by the architects Aoki Jun and Nishizawa Tetsuo, who dug an underground entrance beneath the forecourt in front of the historic façade to add space without altering its external appearance.

The museum, in the Okazaki district next to Heian-jingū, mainly holds works of the Kyoto school of painting (Kyoto-ga) from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as temporary exhibitions of contemporary art.

ℹ️ Open 10:00–18:00 from April to September, 9:00–17:00 from October to March; entry by booked time slot. The permanent collection gallery costs 730 yen for non-residents of Kyoto (520 yen for residents); temporary exhibitions are priced separately.

🚉 Higashiyama · 9 min walk

Sources: hash-casa.com · kyoto-artbox.jp

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