Art museums and galleries in Japan Art museums and galleries in Japan The Miho Museum ( Miho Museum ) is located near the town of Shigaraki-no-Sato in the Shiga Prefecture of Japan, northeast of Kyoto. The museum was the dream of Mihoko Koyama (after whom it is named), the heiress to the Toyobo textile business, and one of the richest women in Japan. In 1970 she founded the Shinji Shumeikai spiritual movement (see Shumei ) which is now said to have some 300,000 members worldwide, and in the 1990's she commissioned the museum to be built close to the Shumei temple in the Shiga mountains. ...more on Wikipedia about "Miho Museum"
The MOA Museum of Art (MOA美術館, emu oh ei bijutsukan) is a private museum in the city of Atami, Japan. It was established in 1982 by the Mokichi Okada Association (MOA) to house the art collection of their founder, multimillionaire and religious leader Mokichi Okada (1882-1955). ...more on Wikipedia about "MOA Museum of Art"
The is one of the pre-eminent national art museums in Japan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nara National Museum"
The is the foremost collecting and exhibiting museum of contemporary Japanese art. Located in a building designed by Taniguchi Yoshirô in Kitanomaru Park, it was orginally establed in 1952 in the Kyōbashi area of Tokyo. It has been in its current location since 1969. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art"
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