Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art

The Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art opened in 1933 and is the oldest art museum building in Japan. The museum features a new wing, Higashiyama Cube, which showcases contemporary art, a highly functional main building with a collection room featuring masterpieces from the Kyoto art world, and The Triangle, which supports up-and-coming artists. The museum showcases art from various eras and genres, embodying the evolution of Kyoto's art scene, where tradition and innovation intersect. The museum's collection includes approximately 4,400 pieces of Kyoto art from the modern era onward (Japanese painting, Western painting, sculpture, prints, crafts, and calligraphy). The museum's collection includes some of the finest modern Japanese and Western paintings from the Kyoto art world from the Meiji to Showa periods, as well as the ZERO collection, which brings together prints by world masters, and many award-winning works from the VOCA exhibition, which has captured the evolution of contemporary art for 30 years.