National Center for the Arts (Tokyo)

National Art Center ( 国立 新 美術館 Kokuritsu Shin-Bijutsukan ) is a museum in Tokyo , Japan . It is a joint project of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan and the independent administrative institution of the National Museum (a legal entity created by the Japanese government in 2001 by merging three previously independent national museums - the Tokyo National Museum, the Kyoto National Museum, and the National Museum Nara ) ^[2] .

National Center for the Arts
新 美術館
Founding date	2007
opening date
Location
Address	Roppongi , Minato , Tokyo
Visitors per year	2,039,947 (2013) [1]
Site	www.nact.jp/

The museum is located on the site, which until 2007 was occupied by the Research Center of Tokyo University . The total area of ​​the exhibition spaces is 14 000 m² ^[3] . Included in the top twenty most visited art museums in the world ^[1] .

It is located in a building designed by the architect Kurokawa Kisho ^[4] . Located near the station Nogidzaka Chiyoda line of the Tokyo metro .

Unlike other national museums in Japan, the National Center for the Arts does not have a permanent exhibition and does not have curators. The museum operates on the principle of the Kunsthalle German museums, which implies the holding of temporary exhibitions organized by sponsors and other museums ^[5] . In the first year of its work, in 2007, the museum held 69 exhibitions organized by outside artistic groups and 10 organized independently. The exhibition of Claude Monet , held from April 7 and July 2, 2007, was the second most attended art event of the year, not only in Japan, but worldwide. ^[5]