For an introduction to contemporary art in Japan, you can visit the museum, located in a special area of ​​Chiyoda. The National Museum of Modern Art is also known by the acronym MOMAT (Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo). Showrooms and private art library and a gallery of crafts and National Cinema Center are part of it.

Primarily known museum collection of modern Japanese art, including work and a Western-style, and style nihonga - Japanese direction, the master who use traditional themes, techniques and materials - silk, ink and others.

Museum of Modern Art was opened in 1952 on the initiative of the Ministry of Education of Japan. The building was designed by Kunio Maekava, a disciple of the famous architect Le Corbusier. Later, the museum bought two adjacent rooms, and it has expanded the area of ​​their showrooms and warehousing.

The museum has about 8,000 Japanese prints Ukiyo-e, including the collection of a famous collector, politician and businessman Kojiro Matsukata, who at the beginning of the XX century was looking for these prints all over the world and has collected 1925 samples.

Works of famous Japanese artist are presented here since the Meiji era - for example, Ai-Mitsu, Hey-Kyu, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Kagaku Murakami and others. There are in the collection of the National Museum of Western paintings of outstanding artists - such as Francis Bacon, Marc Chagall, Paul Gauguin, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and many others.

Crafts Gallery is a section of the museum, which appeared in 1977 in an additional room. Here you can find items of textiles, ceramics, lacquer, not only of Japanese artisans and craftsmen from around the world.

A branch of the museum is also the National Cinema Center, in his collection of 40,000 films and other materials.