Tokyo National Museum

Japan’s oldest and largest national museum, located in Tokyo’s Ueno Park. Its collections focus on Japanese and Asian art and archaeology.

Honkan: The Tokyo National Museum’s main gallery, displaying Japanese art in chronological and thematic exhibitions. Its galleries form the museum’s principal route through Japanese art.
Museum of the Ministry of Education: An early Japanese public museum established under the Ministry of Education in the nineteenth century. The institution grew from this predecessor, opened in 1872.
Japanese National Treasures: Objects designated by Japan’s government as especially important cultural properties. The museum preserves and exhibits numerous designated National Treasures.
Kyoto National Museum: A national museum in Kyoto specializing in Japanese cultural properties, especially premodern art and archaeology. It shares a national mission while emphasizing the cultural heritage of Kyoto.
Toyokan: A Tokyo National Museum gallery devoted to art and archaeological objects from across Asia. It extends the museum’s scope beyond Japanese collections.
Yushima Seido: A Confucian temple complex in Tokyo that hosted Japan’s first public museum exhibition in 1872. Its grounds were the venue for the museum’s founding exhibition.
Cultural Property Protection Law: A Japanese law establishing systems to designate, protect, and manage cultural properties. Its framework shapes the status and care of many objects in the collection.
Nara National Museum: A national museum in Nara known for collections and exhibitions of Buddhist art. Its focused Buddhist holdings complement Tokyo’s broader Japanese and Asian collections.
Gallery of Horyuji Treasures: A Tokyo National Museum gallery housing objects from the collection donated by Horyuji Temple. Its dedicated building presents a major temple collection within the museum.
Japan–United Kingdom Exhibition: A 1910 exhibition in London that presented Japanese culture and products to British audiences. Objects and displays associated with this exhibition reflected the museum’s international role.

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