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Preserving the legacy of Kyoto’s cultural assets for the benefit of future generations.
Kyoto National Museum opened in 1897 as the Imperial Museum of Kyoto.
Today, the museum maintains a collection of about 14,600 pieces of art and cultural properties with close ties to Kyoto, including Japanese and East Asian artworks, as well as excavated cultural treasures. The museum exhibits a range of cultural properties, including archaeological artifacts, ceramics, Buddhist statues and other forms of sculpture, paintings from the Heian through early modern periods, calligraphy, textiles, lacquer work, metalwork, and other arts and crafts that reflect the history of Kyoto. The museum also regularly holds special exhibitions.
The museum has two exhibition spaces: the first is the Meiji Kotokan Hall, a Western-style, retro red brick building that has remained intact since the museum first opened. The building itself is designated as an Important Cultural Property (as of July 2021, exhibitions here are suspended due to plans for seismic retrofitting).
The second is the Heisei Chishinkan Wing, which was built in 2014 and designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, who also designed the new building for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. It has a striking, modern appearance and includes a café-restaurant called The Muses that is managed by the luxury hotel Hyatt Regency Kyoto, as well as a museum store called Kyoto Benrido that sells goods related to the museum's exhibits. The café Maeda Coffee is located at the south gate, and from there you can enjoy the beautiful view of the Meiji Kotokan Hall and the garden.
The main gate and the Meiji Kotokan Hall are esteemed landmarks designated as an Important Cultural Properties.
In front of the Meiji Kotokan Hall (Important Cultural Property), the famous sculptor Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker" is on display.
The Heisei Chishinkan Wing, located next to the Meiji Kotokan Hall, leaves a striking impression.
We visited this Museum in 1984, as part of a group, sponsored by Asian Productivity CENTER, APO, and Japan Productivity Center, JPC.
I still cherish to revisit Japan because of Japan's People.
They were so hospitable and loveable.
不只是博物館內部的收藏品，光是博物館建築物的本體也都有相當歷史值得參觀。
