Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art
Wakinohama Kaigandōri, Japan
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The Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art, which opened in 2002 in Nada-ku, Kobe, is a purpose-built gallery designed by renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando. The museum houses foreign and Japanese sculptures, prints, and paintings—with particular strength in Western-style and Japanese-style works connected to Hyogo Prefecture, as well as Japanese modernist and contemporary art. Dedicated galleries honor the European-trained modernist painters Ryōhei Koiso and Kanayama Heizō. The building itself was constructed and donated to the prefecture through Ando's Architectural Institute, embodying the architect's signature approach to museum design.
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- Built
- Type
- art museum, prefectural museum
- Place
- Wakinohama Kaigandōri, Japan
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