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Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

東京都台東区上野公園8-36

- Opened in 1926 as the Tokyo Prefectural Art Museum, the first public art museum in Japan. The collection was transferred to the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo when it opened, with part of the collection re-transferred when the museum was renovated in 2012. - Currently, the collection consists of 12 sculptures, which are permanently displayed at the Museum, and 36 calligraphic works. - The museum’s Collection & Archives Search provides access to artworks in the collection as well as documents from since the museum’s founding. - Signature collection: INOUE Bukichi, my sky hole 85-2: light and shadow, 1985 / AOYAMA San'u, Busy with Coaches and Horses, etc. - Number of items in the collection: 48