Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art will reopen from May 19, 2020. Galleries and Sculpture Park will reopen while other facilities remain closed. For your health and safety, please follow our protective measures when visiting the museum. [ Exhibitions onView More >
To prevent the Coronavirus (COVID-19) from further spreading, the museum will stay temporarily closed from February 29 to March 19, 2020. Decisions regarding the reopening and museum schedule from March 20 onward will be considered accordingly and updated on ourView More >
In 1939, A Happy Home is published. The book explained a variety of things that women could do to maintain a cheerful domestic environment. An anecdote at the beginning relates how a concubine convinced the legendary shogun Tokugawa IeyasuView More >
The exhibition consists of two parts, the first entitled “Collection Highlights,” and the second a Special Feature titled “An Inner LandscapeⅡ: Symbols and Abstractions.” “Collection Highlights” introduces important works that are representative of the collection, or exemplify its characteristics, fromView More >
This year marks 400 years since Asano Nagaakira (the first head of the Asano clan and lord of the Hiroshima Domain) assumed control of Hiroshima Castle. As part of a variety of events that are being held to commemorate thisView More >
As you look back at the history of architecture, you discover a host of outstanding concepts that never reached completion and stimulating ideas that were deliberately limited to proposals. Focusing on unfinished architecture projects by about 40 Japanese and foreignView More >
The exhibition consists of two sections: “Collection Highlights,” and a special feature titled “An Inner Landscape I: Landscapes and Memories.” Selected from the over 1,600 items housed in the museum, “Collection Highlights” introduces important works that are representative ofView More >
The Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art was opened in 1989 as the first public museum in Japan specializing in contemporary art. Commemorating the facility’s 30th anniversary, this exhibition focuses primarily on the trajectory of the museum’s activities and theView More >
Taiji Matsue (b. 1963) made his debut as a photographer after graduating from the geography department at the University of Tokyo. Strongly fixated on compositions without horizon lines and two-dimensionality, Matsue has captured images throughout the world with a consistentView More >
The exhibition is made up of two sections: “Collection Highlights,”and the special feature, “Like a Face.” In the first, we focus on artists who, as leaders in a number of important trends, are indispensable to any discussion of 20thView More >
Alfredo Jaar Winner of the 11th Hiroshima Art Prize Decided Mr. Alfredo Jaar The City of Hiroshima has selected the winner of the 11th Hiroshima Art Prize, Mr. Alfredo Jaar (Born 1956 in Chile.) About the Hiroshima Art PrizeView More >
Hiroshima-native Iri Maruki (1901-1995) and his Hokkaido-born wife Toshi (née Toshiko Akamatsu, 1912-2000) collaborated on art works that depicted human catastrophes such as war and pollution. Iri, who developed a unique style with ink painting, and Toshi, who studied oilView More >