Urasoe Art Museum, Art museum in Urasoe, Japan.

The Urasoe Art Museum is a museum in Nakama, Urasoe, Okinawa, designed by architect Shozo Uchii and opened in 1990. The reinforced-concrete building has one basement and two above-ground floors, with a total floor area of 3,361 m². Its permanent exhibition room displays about 60 Ryukyu lacquerware pieces at a time, and three temporary galleries host painting and photography exhibitions.

The museum opened in February 1990 as Okinawa's first public museum and Japan's first dedicated lacquer museum. This establishment marked a key moment in making the region's traditional craftsmanship accessible to a wider public.

The permanent room shows about sixty Ryukyu lacquer pieces, with themes rotated between two annual periods; some displays add a few lacquers from mainland Japan, China and Southeast Asia. The museum has a friendship agreement with the Wajima Lacquer Art Museum in Ishikawa, concluded in 1991.

The museum stands at 1-9-2 Nakama, Urasoe, inside Urasoe Culture Park, next to Tedako Hall, about 20 minutes by car from central Naha using the park car park. By bus, get off at Bijutsukan-mae or Ohira (Bypass), both roughly five minutes on foot. Inside are a library, a practice classroom and the cafe Hana Urushi.

The museum's collection stems from a 1983 exhibition, "The Beauty of Ryukyu Lacquerware", held at Urasoe Civic Hall, which gathered fine pieces scattered across mainland Japan. Public demand led the city to plan a dedicated facility the following year, and construction took about seven years. The building, designed by architect Shozo Uchii, received the Public Building Award.