Category Archives: East Asia

Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan

The Saitama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art (埼玉県立近代美術館 Saitama Prefectural Art Center) is a museum located in Tokiwa, Urawa-ku, Saitama Prefecture. It is in the park of Kitaurawa Park. The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama opened amid the lush greenery of Kita-Urawa Park on November 3, 1982.Known as MOMAS (The…

Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan

Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki-shi, Japan

The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma (群馬県立近代美術館) opened in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, in 1974. The collection includes works by Monet, Renoir, and Soga Jasoku. The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma opened in the autumn of 1974. The activities of the museum include the acquisition and preservation of artworks, art…

Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki-shi, Japan

Museum of Ethnic Cultures, Minzu University of China

The Museum of Ethnic Cultures (Chinese: 中央民族大学民族博物馆) , founded in 1951, covers a building area of 4800 m2 with the exhibition area of 1800 m2. It is a museum of ethnology specializing in preservation, display and study of ethnic cultural relics of 56 ethnic groups in China. Preserved in it…

Museum of Ethnic Cultures, Minzu University of China

Museum of Ethnic Costumes, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, China

Ethnic Costume Museum of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (Chinese: 北京服装学院 BIFT), established with the approval of Beijing Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage, is the first museum specializing in ethnic costumes in China. The Museum is also a cultural research institute integrating collection, display, research, and teaching. As the top…

Museum of Ethnic Costumes, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, China

Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu-shi, Japan

Mie Prefectural Art Museum (三重県立美術館) opened in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan, in 1982. The collection has a particular emphasis on yōga. Mie Prefectural Art Museum (Mie architectural art museum) is a museum in Tsu city, Mie prefecture. It opened in 1982 as the first full-scale museum in Chubu and Tokai…

Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu-shi, Japan

National Theater of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

The National Theater of Korea (국립극장) is a national theatre located in the neighborhood of Jangchung-dong, Jung-gu, South Korea. It is the first nationally managed theater in Asia. Since its founding in 1950, the National Theater of Korea has endured the misery of the Korean War, and for the 65…

National Theater of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

National Palace Museum, Taiwan

The National Palace Museum, located in Taipei and Taibao, Chiayi County, Taiwan, has a permanent collection of nearly 700,000 pieces of ancient Chinese imperial artifacts and artworks, making it one of the largest of its type in the world. The collection encompasses 8,000 years of history of Chinese art from…

National Palace Museum, Taiwan

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan

The National Museum of Western Art (国立西洋美術館) is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition. The Museum is located in the museum and zoo complex in Ueno Park in Taito, central Tokyo. The Museum is located in the museum and zoo complex in…

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan

National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan

The National Museum of Nature and Science (国立科学博物館) is in the northeast corner of Ueno Park in Tokyo. Opened in 1871, it has had several names, including Ministry of Education Museum, Tokyo Museum, Tokyo Science Museum, the National Science Museum of Japan, and the National Museum of Nature and Science…

National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Chiyoda-ku, Japan

The Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art (東京国立近代美術館), Japan, is the foremost museum collecting and exhibiting modern Japanese art. The museum is known for its collection of 20th-century art and includes Western-style and Nihonga artists. The First National Museum of Art in Japan The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo,…

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Chiyoda-ku, Japan

National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, South Korea

National Institute Biological Resources(NIBR) builds efficient systems for conservation and management of national biological resources, supports Korean biotechnology industries, and raise public awareness on the values of biological resources through exhibition, education and training project. NIBR’s Exhibition Hall is the only place in Korea that exclusively displays Korea’s native species…

National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, South Korea

Namhansanseong World Heritage Center, Gwangju-si, South Korea

Namhansanseong portrays how the various theories of defense mechanisms in Korea were put to form by combining the everyday living environment with defense objectives, embodies the evidence of how Buddhism played an influential role in protecting the State and the fortress became a symbol of sovereignty in Korea. It stands…

Namhansanseong World Heritage Center, Gwangju-si, South Korea

Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin-si, South Korea

Nam June Paik Art Center is an art gallery in Giheung-gu, Yongin, in the Seoul Capital Area, South Korea. It opened in 2008 and hosts both permanent and temporary exhibitions. It is named after the Korean American artist Nam June Paik, whose work is included in its permanent collection. Nam…

Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin-si, South Korea

Nakagawa-machi Bato Hiroshige Museum of Art, Nasu-gun, Japan

The Nakagawa-machi Bato Hiroshige Museum of Art (那珂川町馬頭広重美術館) opened in November 200 to introduce the Aoki Collection(which was donated to the town) to the public, and to promote culture and the arts at the local level. Byscheduling exhibits on a variety of themes centering on ukiyo-eart, the museum aims to…

Nakagawa-machi Bato Hiroshige Museum of Art, Nasu-gun, Japan

Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki-shi, Japan

The Ohara Museum of Art (大原美術館) in Kurashiki was the first collection of Western art to be permanently exhibited in Japan. The museum opened in 1930 and originally consisted almost entirely of French paintings and sculptures of the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection has now expanded to include paintings…

Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki-shi, Japan

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