Art Museum at the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, University art museum in Nagakute, Japan
The Art Museum at the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music is a university museum on a forested campus in Nagakute, near Nagoya. It presents works by students, faculty, and guest artists, with exhibitions that change throughout the year.
The university was founded in 1966 on a hilly site near Nagoya, with a focus on training artists and musicians in the region. The museum grew out of that educational mission and has served as a public exhibition space for the university's creative output ever since.
The museum sits on a campus that is easy to walk around, and outdoor sculptures are visible along the paths. It is worth checking in advance which exhibitions are open, as the schedule varies by semester.
The wider university complex includes a museum dedicated to reproductions of the murals from Horyuji Temple, which are over a thousand years old. These copies were made after the originals were damaged by fire, and they are now used as research references by conservation specialists.
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