Shizuoka City Museum of Art Opened

On May 1, the Shizuoka City Museum of Art (Director: TANAKA Toyone) opened on the third floor of the newly constructed Aoi Tower building at the north exit of JR Shizuoka Station. It is managed by the Shizuoka City Cultural Promotion Foundation. It comprises three exhibition rooms with a total floor area of 1100 square meters. Having succeeded the Shizuoka Art Gallery, which was closed in March, the museum will not host permanent exhibitions since it houses no art collection. Instead, it will focus on special exhibitions that are not confined to specific genres as its core activities. Workshops and talk events were held until September. A series of the inaugural exhibitions commenced in October: (I) ‘Masterpieces from the Pola Museum of Art: Impressionists and Ecole de Paris’ (October 2 – November 28); (II) ‘Ieyasu and Yoshinobu: Tokugawa Family and Shizuoka’ (December 11 – January 30, 2011); and (III) ‘Munakata Shikō: Inori to tabi (Munakata Shikō: Prayer and Journey) (February 11 – March 27, 2011)’. (Japanese)