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🤗 01 Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art

Address: 17-chome, Kita 1-jo Nishi, Chuo-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido Website: http://www.dokyoi.pref.hokkaido.lg.jp/hk/knb/index.htm Admission: 510 yen (adults)

The Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, established in 1977, has a collection of more than 5,000 items of modern Hokkaido art from the 19th century and after the Meiji era, works of the École de Paris in the early 20th century, glass artifacts from inside and outside of Japan, and works of contemporary art related to Hokkaido. Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art The Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art covers an area of nearly 20,000 square meters and is divided into two floors. Paintings and glass are some of the more impressive permanent exhibitions here, and although there are not many items in the collection, it is quiet and less crowded, so you can take your time to enjoy them. On the second floor, there is a whole floor of floor-to-ceiling windows with a very good view, so you can laze around here when you are tired of shopping. Every three years “Sapporo International Art Festival”, here will set up a branch, special exhibitions are very good, this year's is also very good. demo, the next time will have to wait until 2027 ~ everyone to go to the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, you can go to the branch of the Museum of Miyagishi Kotaro Museum of Art, is also quite good.

🤗 02 Aomori Prefectural Museum of Art

Address: 185 Kono, Yasuda-aza, Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture Website: www.aomori-museum.jp/ja/ Admission: 900 yen (adult)

Aomori is well known in the art museum circle. Not only is the prefectural art museum in Aomori very good, but there are also several municipal museums that are worth seeing, including the Towada City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Sandman's House, and the Aomori International Art Center, to name a few. Of course, we're mainly talking about prefectural today.

The Aomori Prefectural Art Museum is out of the loop for two main reasons: firstly, the museum is a collection of over 170 works by the famous Aomori-born artist Yoshitomo Nara, and shades of 48 Girls and Lonely Puppy can be seen everywhere; and secondly, the design of the museum itself was supervised by Jun Aoki, the royal designer of Louis Vuitton, and the building itself and the works of art mirror each other to form a very consistent experience of Japanese modern aesthetics. Open to the public since 2006, the Aomori Prefectural Museum of Art is a building with a white, concave facade that stands on a vast expanse of land. Its modern and subtle design was inspired by the ruins of a Jomon era village near the museum, and is also a World Heritage site called “Sannai Maruyama Ruins,” which is said to offer a discount on tickets to Sannai Maruyama.

🤗 03 Iwate Prefectural Museum of Art

Address: 12-3 Matsunaga, Motomiya-aza, Morioka-shi, Iwate-ken Website: https://www.ima.or.jp/ Admission: 460 yen (adult)

The Iwate Prefectural Museum of Art opened in October 2001 in the center of Morioka. The main collection exhibits three local Iwate artists, painter Goro Mantei, Shunsuke Matsumoto, and sculptor Hobu Funakoshi. Iwate Prefectural Museum of Art this place, in fact, I think it is okay, but in the circle of art museums, not very famous, the core reason is mainly due to the three artists in Iwate Prefecture, such as Man Tetsu Goro known as Japan's Picasso, Funakoshi Hobu is a Japanese sculpture, but because of the age of the influence of the very limited ～

Mantetsugoro, “Leaning Man”, in the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Of course, in addition to the exhibits, I personally think that the building of the Iwate Prefectural Museum of Art itself is worth seeing. The outside looks ordinary, but the space inside is very well designed, and the overall feeling is grand and clean, neat and strict, and very worth seeing.

🤗 04 Akita Prefectural Museum of Art

Address: 1-4-2 Nakadori, Akita-shi, Akita-ken Admission: Free

After saying that the Iwate Prefectural Museum of Art is very “Ando”, the Akita Prefectural Museum of Art, which was really designed by the famous Japanese architect Tadao Ando, is here. The museum was officially opened to the public in May 1967, and the current museum facilities were remodeled in April 1998. Extending from VI design to architectural design to interior design, the design is truly integrated. Tadao Ando's interlocking patterns of many triangles and Shimizu-molded design style interiors create an extraordinary art space, and the large triangular glass roof above the entrance rotating staircase as well as the window view from the second floor café are must-see places for many people who visit the museum.

The museum has a collection of works by foreign painters such as Picasso, Rubens, and Rembrandt, as well as many paintings by Japanese artists. The most noteworthy is the 20-meter-long mural depicting the four seasons and festivals of Akita Prefecture in the 12th year of the Showa Period by a well-known Japanese Western artist, Mr. Fujita Tsuji, which is regarded as one of the jewels of Akita, and has attracted countless art enthusiasts to stop by and look at it.

🤗 05 Yamagata Prefectural Museum of Art

Address: 1-63 Otemachi, Yamagata City

Yamagata is a place that doesn't have much of an existence on its own, and the Yamagata Prefectural Museum of Art (Yamagata Museum of Art), which carries on the tradition of Yamagata's excellence, doesn't have much of an existence either. It is far less famous than several other Yamagata art museums (Honma Museum of Art, Tendo Museum of Art) and museums (Bunsho Museum). The Yamagata Prefectural Museum of Art, located in Otemachi, Yamagata City, was opened in 1964 as an art museum run by private citizens, and was renamed to its current name in 1979. At the time of its opening, the Yamagata Museum of Art mainly collected Japanese paintings, but later Gypsum Yoshino donated a number of works to the museum, and now it mainly exhibits modern artworks from both inside and outside of Japan, traditional Japanese artworks, and works by local artists from Yamagata Prefecture.

Among the Japanese works, at the Yamagata Museum of Art, you can see works of the Edo period Kano school, the Bunjin school, and the Round Hill Shijo school, as well as carvings by the modern sculptor Takeshiro Shinkai, who was born in Yamagata, and works from the collection of the Yoshino Plaster Co. In addition, the museum has been designated a National Cultural Property with the “Light-colored Oshu Path Drawing on Paper” by Xie Wumura.

🤗 06 Miyagi Prefectural Museum of Art

Address: 34-1 Kawauchi Genjikura, Aoba-ku, Sendai City Website: http://www.pref.miyagi.jp/site/mmoa/ Admission: 300 yen

The Miyagi Prefectural Museum of Art, opened in November 1981, is located in Sendai, the capital of Miyagi Prefecture, and is the largest art museum in Sendai.

The museum collects mainly Japanese-style paintings, woodblock prints, various kinds of sculptures and handicrafts, as well as works by some famous Western artists. The works of famous Japanese artists collected in the museum are basically inherited from the Meiji era, and most of them are related to Miyagi Prefecture and the northeastern region of Japan, which is very important for the study of the development of painting, handicrafts, and other arts in the region. In addition to works by famous Japanese artists, the Miyagi Prefectural Museum of Art has a collection of foreign works by Kandinsky, Klee and Schiele.

One of the specialties of the Miyagi Prefectural Museum of Art is that there is not only a place to view the works, but also a creation room where you can experience art through making them. However, the museum is currently under renovation and will be closed until the middle of the next 25 years.

🤗 07 Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art

Address: 1 Moriwa Nishiyama, Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture

If those previous ones are okay to go to, then this one is worth going to. The Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art has a collection of more than 3,800 paintings from a variety of countries, and there are many important paintings in the collection, such as those by modern American painter Andrew Wyeth. There is also a rich collection of outstanding works by artists such as Shoji Sekine, who was born in Shirakawa, and Kiyoshi Saito, a printmaker who depicted Aizu, and others who are deeply associated with Fukushima Prefecture. On another note, like the Aomori Prefectural Museum of Art and the Akita Prefectural Museum of Art, this museum's own architecture is a major attraction. The building was designed and completed by Japan's national treasure architect Kunio Maekawa, who is known as the flag-bearer of Japanese modernism, one of the first group of figures to start the wind of modern minimalist architecture in Japan, and is the Concrete Generation Megami, and the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan is one of his representative works, so this place is also toured by a number of architects every year.

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Overall, of the prefectural art museums in the six Tohoku prefectures and Hokkaido, our ranking priorities are as follows: Aomori/Fukushima - Akita - Hokkaido - Iwate - Yamagata - Miyagi (who let this place be under repair, hhh)