1. OSAKA
   • The National Museum of Ethnology "Minpaku"
   • THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART,OSAKA
   • THE MUSEUM OF ORIENTAL CERAMICS, OSAKA
   • Suntory Museum
   • KIDS PLAZA OSAKA
   • OSAKA MUSEUM OF HISTORY
   • OSAKA MUNICIPAL MUSEUM OF ART
2. NARA
   • NARA PREFECTURE COMPLEX OF MAN'YO CULTURE
   • NARA NATIONAL MUSEUM
3. KYOTO
   • Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
   • THE MUSEUM OF KYOTO
   • KYOTO NATIONAL MUSEUM
   • THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, KYOTO
4. SHIGA
   • MIHO MUSEUM
5. KOBE(HYOGO)
   • HIMEJI CITY MUSEUM OF ART
   • HYOGO PREFECTURAL MUSEUM OF ART
   • KOBE CITY MUSEUM

Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (075-771-4107)

This public art museum was established as The Japan's second largest museum in 1933. It houses some 2,200 paintings and craft works from the Meiji Period, mainly by artists associated with Kyoto. Exhibitions of its permanent collection are held four times a year.

One Hundred Years of Painting in Paris:
"The City of Renoir,Cezanne,and Utrillo,1830-1930"

Main themes of exhibition are the city of Paris and the people living there, the rebuilding of bridges across the River Seine, which transformed Paris into a modern city, parks, fountains, gas lights and the Eiffel Tower, which was completed for the Exposition Universelle. The exhibition shows how new styles of urban landscape and pictures of people in Paris were painted by artist who were either born in or moved to Paris, with the display of some 140 works by Renoir, Utrillo, Rodin, Bourdelle and Maillol, including Cezanne’s "Temptation of St. Anthony" which will be on display in Japan for the first time.

Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection III:
"Artful Sets of Two"

There are not a few examples of works of art that combine two items to make one, like a pair (isso) of screens or a pair (sofuku) of hanging scrolls. This exhibition examines the influence of paired arrangements upon artistic style and expression. Works by artists such as Tomioka Tessai, Kitano Tsunetomi, Kiyomizu Rokubei (the Fifth), Yanagi Miwa and Horiuchi Masakazu will be on display.

The 40th Nitten Kyoto Exhibition