The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama shi, Japan

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), it is the first art museum the architect Kurokawa Kisho designed.In addition to displaying our collection of fine artworks from modern Western masters to contemporary Japanese artists, we also hold special exhibitions focusing on unique themes.Adding children’s programs and opportunities for citizens to show their works, MOMAS is full of exciting ways for you to get closer and enjoy art.

The Saitama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art (Saitama Prefectural Art Center) is a museum located in Tokiwa, Urawa-ku, Saitama Prefecture. It is in the park of Kitaurawa Park.

On May 10, 1957 in the era of former Urawa city, the Saitama prefectural art museum which will be the predecessor predecessor opened as the first prefectural art museum on the other side of the lagoon (the stage of the Urawa painter's success). Although it was used as a venue for the Saitama prefectural art exhibition, the exhibition room of the Saitama Kaikan which was newly built in 1966 played the role as it became small due to the increase in the winning works. The prefectural art museum which lost the main role is effectively closed after it was used at the Urawa municipal museum building hall and Urawa civil engineering office building office building and it became the management office of Bishouma Park and then dismantled by rebuilding It was done.

However, as the exhibition room at Saitama Kaikan became too small, modern artworks were collected in Saitama Prefectural Museum in Omiya Park, so the voice of "a full-fledged art museum in Urawa" was raised and Saitama prefecture has a collection of works We decided the construction plan of a new museum which will be newly constructed, and in Saitama prefecture modernity (Kita Urawa Park) which was established at the site of Saitama University (formerly formerly Urawa High School) which moved to November 3, 1982 (1969) It opened as a museum. Urawa Kita Park is located adjacent to the south side. Until then, we transferred the modern art work which was stored in the Saitama prefectural museum to the hotel. The building is designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa. This was the first time Kurokawa designed a museum in a museum.

It is the basic policy of the museum to collect outstanding works of both inside and outside, which influenced Saitama's modern art. For that reason, of the 3,000 works in the collection, about 2000 items are occupied by artists of Saitama prefecture. Works by Eiji and Tanaiuchi Ryojiro famous as Urawa painters are also on display. You can sit in numerous masterpieces in the hall, also known as a museum in the chair.
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