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Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture: MOT Museum (博物館)

東京都歴史文化財団

General Information

Facility:
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Address:
4-1-1 Miyoshi, Kōtō-ku, Tokyo 135-0022
Phone:
+81-3-5245-4111
Email:
kantyo#mot-art.jp (Please replace # with @)
Hours:
Tuesday-Sunday 10:30-18:00 (last admission 17:30)

 

About Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo:

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (a.k.a. MOT)  was opened in 1995. The museum has about 4,000 items of postwar art collections from both Japan and around the world.

The permanent collection presents a chronological study of 40 years of contemporary art since 1960; there are about 100 works displayed alternately. 

Special exhibits are held regularly in accordance with changes in art trend Special exhibitions (they call temporary exhibits) display from Southeast Asian art to a representative selection of Jasper Johns' life work.

Other art works include works by Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, Frank Stella, Sandro Chia, Mark Rothko, and Julian Schnabel.

TMFHC Cultural Facilities

Summary of Collection(s)

Collection Size: 4,000 items 

Focus: Postwar art collection from both Japan and around the world

Notable Collection(s): Some of the prominent collections include works by artists such as Nara Yoshitomo, Tanaka Atsuko, and Shiraga Kazuo.

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Using the Museum

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