The Idemitsu Museum of Arts was opened in 1966 as an exhibition hall for the Idemitsu Collection. The building is located on the 9th floor of the Imperial Theater Building looking down over the beautiful Imperial Garden in Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. The museum is designed to incorporate the Japanese spirit of welcome in the setting of the modern building and invites visitors to enjoy the artworks in comfortable and relaxed atmosphere.Special exhibitions are held about five to six times a year, with themed exhibitions of selected works from the Idemitsu Collection of Japanese painting and calligraphy, and East Asian ceramics. Other attractions include a year-round exhibition of major works by Georges Rouault (1871-1958), the French master of religious paintings who is famous for the series called “Passion” depicting the last days of life of Jesus Christ. The unique feature of the Museum is the Sherd Room where fragments of pottery collected from kilns around Asia and Egypt (Fustat site, Cairo) are displayed.
Idemitsu Museum of Arts
General Information
9th Floor, Teigeki Bldg.,
3-1-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo, 100-0005
Japan
Phone: (+81) 3-5777-8600
http://idemitsu-museum.or.jp/en/
Related Exhibitions
330 Years since Oku no Hosomichi, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The World of Bashō
August 31, 2019 to September 29, 2019
Kanō School — The Eyes and Hands that Controlled the Painting World
February 11, 2020 to March 1, 2020
Commemorating the 270th Anniversary of Birth
100 Masterpieces Selected of Sengai
January 9, 2021 to February 11, 2021
Painted Folding Screens, Byōbu-e — Brilliance of the Japanese Esthetic
July 18, 2020 to September 6, 2020
