東京都美術館開館100周年 世界をひらくアートのとびら

In 2026, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum marks its 100th anniversary. This museum was founded on an enormous donation from Kyushu industrialist SATO Keitaro. Sato gave generously of his fortune earned in the coal industry, and in 1926, Japan’s first public art museum was born.
Besides his bequest to this museum, Sato donated much of his personal wealth to such causes as providing relief and schools for victims of poverty, improving dietary habits and rural villages, and raising the standard of women’s education so that people might “live better.” His dream was the realization of what we today call “wellbeing.” We view that spirit as the genesis of the mission Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum has been entrusted with.