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]]>If you can’t decide where to start your art journey in Tokyo, we recommend visiting one of the following art museums and taking it from there.
Tokyo National Museum is Japan’s largest art museum that houses more than 100,000 artworks and artifacts as well as 89 items designated as National Treasures by the Japanese government. Its collection mainly focuses on Japanese art from the ancient and medieval periods as well as Asian art from regions linked with the Silk Road.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo has a reputation of giving space to daring, unusual, and sometimes controversial artworks. The majority of the works displayed in the museum date from 1945 to the present, including Andy Warhol’s “Marilyn Monroe,” Roy Lichtenstein’s “Girl with Hair Ribbon” and Tokujin Yoshioka’s “Water Block.”
Mori Art Museum is a unique museum in a way that it doesn’t have a permanent collection. Instead, the museum holds temporary exhibits by contemporary artists. Visitors can enjoy large-scale solo shows from notable contemporary artists, both domestic and international, as well as specially curated themed exhibitions.
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]]>A museum dedicated to snow globes sure is unusual and Ikejiri Institute of Design is home to the world’s first and only art museum dedicated to them. There are around 1,000 samples from around the world and you can even make your very own snow globe.
Curated by the master of traditional Japanese tattooing, Horiyoshi III, Bunshin Tattoo Museum features a private collection with objects that relate to the culture, customs, and history of skin art. Bunshin is the ancient Japanese word for tattoos and prehistoric clay figurines found in the country showed the primitive pattern tattoos existed before the Common Era.
This museum was opened back in 1953 by Satoru Kamegai, a doctor who couldn’t believe the number of patients affected by parasites in post-war Japan. The museum isn’t for the squeamish as it displays over 300 samples of the 45,000 parasites he collected. The second floor has an 8.8m tapeworm found in a 40-year-old man.
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]]>If you can’t decide where to start your art journey in Tokyo, we recommend visiting one of the following art museums and taking it from there.
Tokyo National Museum is Japan’s largest art museum that houses more than 100,000 artworks and artifacts as well as 89 items designated as National Treasures by the Japanese government. Its collection mainly focuses on Japanese art from the ancient and medieval periods as well as Asian art from regions linked with the Silk Road.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo has a reputation of giving space to daring, unusual, and sometimes controversial artworks. The majority of the works displayed in the museum date from 1945 to the present, including Andy Warhol’s “Marilyn Monroe,” Roy Lichtenstein’s “Girl with Hair Ribbon” and Tokujin Yoshioka’s “Water Block.”
Mori Art Museum is a unique museum in a way that it doesn’t have a permanent collection. Instead, the museum holds temporary exhibits by contemporary artists. Visitors can enjoy large-scale solo shows from notable contemporary artists, both domestic and international, as well as specially curated themed exhibitions.
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]]>The post 3 Unique Museums in Tokyo, Japan appeared first on Traveler Dreams.
]]>A museum dedicated to snow globes sure is unusual and Ikejiri Institute of Design is home to the world’s first and only art museum dedicated to them. There are around 1,000 samples from around the world and you can even make your very own snow globe.
Curated by the master of traditional Japanese tattooing, Horiyoshi III, Bunshin Tattoo Museum features a private collection with objects that relate to the culture, customs, and history of skin art. Bunshin is the ancient Japanese word for tattoos and prehistoric clay figurines found in the country showed the primitive pattern tattoos existed before the Common Era.
This museum was opened back in 1953 by Satoru Kamegai, a doctor who couldn’t believe the number of patients affected by parasites in post-war Japan. The museum isn’t for the squeamish as it displays over 300 samples of the 45,000 parasites he collected. The second floor has an 8.8m tapeworm found in a 40-year-old man.
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