Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (075-771-4107)
This public art museum was established as The Japan's second largest museum in 1933. It houses some 2,200 paintings and craft works from the Meiji Period, mainly by artists associated with Kyoto. Exhibitions of its permanent collection are held four times a year.
Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection I:
"Time / Space Travels - The Story from Looking at Art"
The works of art cover a wide variety of stories and illustrate how the story-telling function of art has been developed and presented since the beginning of the modern era. The collection, rather like a time capsule, takes the viewer through space and time depicted by works of art that have been collected and preserved in Kyoto. Works by Fuku Akino, Yaichi Kusube and Goho Hibino, as well as the “Tales of Urashima” work by group including Noboru Kitawaki are on display.
- DATE:
- Apr.4 (Sat.),2009 ~ Jun.7 (Sun.),2009
- FEES:
- 500yen (Adults, Univ. & hi. sch. stus.) / 300yen (Jr. hi. & elmt. sch. stus.)
Kyoten 2009
This comprehensive exhibition features works contributed by members of the public and is sponsored by the City of Kyoto. The exhibits include items that have gained awards in six categories: Japanese and Western painting, crafts, sculpture, woodblock printing and calligraphy.
- DATE:
- May 26 (Tue.),2009 ~ Jun.11 (Thu.),2009
- FEES:
- 900yen (Adults) / 600yen (Univ. & hi. sch. stus.) / 400yen (Jr. hi. & elmt. sch. stus.)
The Louvre Museum Exhibition:
"Master Paintings of 17th Century Europe"
The seventeenth century is regarded as the Golden Age of the history of European art. In this exhibition, the diversity of the period is illustrated under three headings: (1) “The Golden Age” and its Shadow; (2) Great Oceangoing Ships and “Scientific Revolution” and (3) Relics of Classical Civilization in “a Century of Saints”. Seventy one masterpieces from the Louvre Museum are on display. including “The Lace Maker” by Vermeer, Rembrandt's “Self-Portrait with Hat and Gold Chain”, “Baby Moses Saved from the River” by Poussin and “Saint Joseph the Carpenter” by Georges de La Tour.
- DATE:
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Jun.30 (Tue.),2009 ~ Sep.27 (Sun.),2009
- FEES:
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1,500yen (Adults) / 1,000yen (Univ. & hi. sch. stus.) / 500yen (Jr. hi. & elmt. sch. stus.)
- HOUR:
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9:00~17:00 (Enter by 16:30)
- CLOSED:
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Mondays (Open on public Hol.), Dec.28 ~ Jan.2
- ACCESS:
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Near Kyoto Kaikan Bijutsukan Mae of the Kyoto City Bus from JR/Kintetsu Kyoto Stn., or 10-min. walk from Higashiyama Stn. on the Subway Tozai Line.
