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The Tokyo National Museum is the oldest national museum in Japan. [9] It considers its origin to have been the Yushima Seido or Shoheizaka Exhibition, a public exhibition of imperial artwork and scientific specimens held by the Ministry of Education's Museum Department from 10 March to 30 April 1872 [10] [5] during the 5th year of the Meiji Era.
Kuromon is in the grounds of the Tokyo National Museum, [2] but can be seen from the street with no admission fee. [1] It can be seen more closely by purchasing an entry ticket to the museum. [4] On Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, between 10 am and 4 pm, the gate is opened and visitors can walk through it. [4]
The very words in Japanese for museum as well as for art were coined in the Meiji period (from 1868) to capture Western concepts after the Iwakura Mission and other early visits to North America and Europe. [18] The Tokyo National Museum was founded in 1872 after the first exhibition by the Museum Department of the new Ministry of Education. [19]
The National Museum of Western Art (国立西洋美術館, Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan, lit. "National Western Art Museum", NMWA) is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition. The museum is in the Ueno Park in Taitō, central Tokyo. It received 1,162,345 visitors in 2016. [1]
National Historical Museum: Sofia Bulgaria: 14,000 (150,000) [48] 1973 Tokyo National Art Center: Tokyo Japan: 14,000 (150,000) [49] 2007 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts: Taichung Taiwan: 13,600 (146,000) [50] 1988 National Gallery in Prague (Veletržní) Prague Czech Republic: 13,500 (145,000) [51] 1796 Indianapolis Museum of Art ...
The National Art Center (国立新美術館, Kokuritsu Shin-Bijutsukan) (NACT) is a museum in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan.A joint project of the Agency for Cultural Affairs and the National Museums Independent Administrative Institution, it stands on a site formerly occupied by a research facility of the University of Tokyo and is adjacent to the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
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This is a list of the most-visited museums in the world in 2023 by annual attendance statistics. Total attendance at the top sixty museums in 2023, as reported by the annual TEA-AECOM Museum survey, reached 94 percent of 2019 levels, before the COVID 19 pandemic.