Kyoto National Museum
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"Japan's oldest art museum outside Tokyo, with 6,000+ works from a 12,000-piece collection."
Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto Overview
Kyoto National Museum opened in 1897 in the Higashiyama district and holds more than 12,000 objects, with roughly 6,000 on view at any time, including over 230 pieces designated National Treasures or Important Cultural Properties. The original Meiji-era main hall, designed by Katayama Tokuma in French Renaissance style, is a registered Important Cultural Property itself and now hosts events, while the 2014 Heisei Chishinkan Wing by architect Yoshio Taniguchi holds the main galleries of sculpture, ceramics, calligraphy, and textiles spanning the Heian to Edo periods.
Kyoto National Museum was established to safeguard treasures from the city's temples and shrines and remains one of Japan's key national museums alongside Tokyo, Nara, and Kyushu. Its grounds hold two distinct buildings: the original 1895 Meiji-era hall in French Renaissance style, and the modern Heisei Chishinkan Wing that opened in September 2014, where most public exhibits are shown. Collections rotate through archaeology, ceramics, lacquerware, painting, calligraphy, and Buddhist sculpture, with a notable concentration of Heian-period pieces. The museum sits near Sanjusangendo temple in Higashiyama-ku. It is open 9:30am to 5pm, closed Mondays (unless a holiday, in which case it closes the next day) and over the New Year period.
