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 >
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Announcement of Closure
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 >
A Bright Home
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 >
Collection Highlights & Special Feature: An Inner LandscapeⅡ―Symbols and Abstractions
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 >
TAIJI MATSUE gazetteer
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 >
Collection Highlights & Special Feature: Like a Face
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 >
Iri and Toshi Maruki: Understanding “The Hiroshima Panels” @ Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Iri and Toshi Maruki: Understanding “The Hiroshima Panels”
8 SEP – 25 NOV 2018
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Winner of the 11th Hiroshima Art Prize Decided Mr. Alfredo Jaar
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 >
Iri and Toshi Maruki: Understanding The Hiroshima Panels
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 >
Collection Highlights & Special Feature1: The Century with Mushroom Clouds/Special Feature2: Prayer
The exhibition is made up of three sections: “Collection Highlights,” and two special features, “The Century with Mushroom Clouds,” and “Prayer.” In the first, we focus on artists who, as leaders in a number of important trends, are indispensable toView More >