The core collection housed in this 1959 Le Corbusier-designed building, Japan’s only national museum devoted to Western art, was assembled by Kawasaki shipping magnate Matsukata Kojiro in the ...

The Museum of Western Art’s 42nd Annual Roundup Exhibition gets underway Friday evening with a special kick-off event from ...

The park also features a zoo, the National Museum of Nature and Science, the National Museum of Western Art, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, the Ueno Royal Museum, the Shitamachi Museum ...

Auguste Rodin’s contemplative bronze “The Thinker,” a cast of which sits in one corner outside the National Museum of Western Art (NMWA) in Ueno, Tokyo, might be turning over in his head ...

In June, a team led by Izumi Ogata, a specially appointed professor of museology at Kyushu Sangyo University, conducted an experiment at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo’s Ueno district.