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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.

The Louvre Museum Exhibition:
"Master Paintings of 17th Century Europe"

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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:
Jun.30 (Tue.),2009 ~ Sep.27 (Sun.),2009
FEES:
1,500yen (Adults) / 1,000yen (Univ. & hi. sch. stus.) / 500yen (Jr. hi. & elmt. sch. stus.)

Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection II:
"Words by Artists, Looks from Viewers - Meetings in the Museum"

Haven't you experienced being left alone or over-protected in museums? Will you analyze artwork from artists' and viewers' perspectives with masterpieces in the museum, which was among the first to collect and is still collecting artworks in Japan? This is the exhibition for those who want to be an artist or a professional art appreciator. Works by Shoen Uemura, Keishun Kishimoto, Makoto Mikami, Kazuo Yagi, Kyubei Kiyomizu and Miwa Yanagi are on display.

DATE:
Jul.11 (Sat.),2009 ~ Oct.11 (Sun.),2009
FEES:
500yen (Adults, Univ. & hi. sch. stus.) / 300yen (Jr. hi. & elmt. sch. stus.)

The 94th Inten:
"Exhibition of the Japan Art Institute"

Approximately 120 new productions of Japanese-style painting by the members of the Nihonbijutsuin and award-winning ordinary painters are on display.
DATE:
Sep.20 (Sun.),2009 ~ Oct.4 (Sun.),2009
FEES:
900yen (Adults) / 700yen (Univ. stus.)
HOUR:
9:00 ~ 17:00 (Enter by 16:30)
CLOSED:
Mondays (Open on public Hol.)
ACCESS:
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.