Since its founding in Ueno Park in 1926, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum has been a place where artists from all over Japan can exhibit their latest works and a place where viewers can encounter masterpieces from around the world.
If the museum were to re-exhibit all the works it has displayed until now, the history of modern art in Japan would vividly come to life.
This exhibition is a modern-contemporary “Japan Art History Digest,” featuring artists who have taken this museum as a stage for their activities. Through people closely associated with the museum—such as its founder, industrialist Keitaro Sato and the architects Shinichiro Okada who designed the original museum building and Kunio Maekawa who designed the new building—we survey the museum’s history.