So as to fulfill Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum’s founding aim—“To promote the advance of art for the sake of the city’s residents”—and achieve its fundamental mission established by Tokyo Metropolis, we, the museum’s designated administrator, have implemented a new administrative policy on the occasion of its 2012 grand reopening, as set forth below.
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum aspires to be a “doorway to art.” The Museum, in its new incarnation, aspires to be a “doorway to art,” open to all people for compelling art experiences—a place where children can visit, budding artists can debut their works, and people with disabilities can come to enjoy art without hesitation. The Museum will strive to build an “art community as a place for creativity and coaction,” where people can encounter new values, re-examine themselves, and deepen their bonds with the world. It will seek to be a place where people engage in art as “nourishment for living.” The Museum will strive to become “a haven for enrichment of the heart.”
(Source: 2010 partially amended “Designated Administrator Proposal Document [Business Plan]” of Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)