Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, museum in Japan
The Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art is an art museum in Fukushima City located at the foot of Mt. Shinobu, holding about 3,800 artworks in its collection. The display rooms are spacious and feature modern paintings, prints, sculptures, ceramics, and textiles from Japan, Europe, and America, arranged in both permanent galleries and rotating exhibition spaces.
The museum opened in 1984 as a space to collect and display modern and contemporary artworks for Fukushima Prefecture. Over the decades it developed into an institution showing works by local Japanese artists alongside pieces by European and American painters like Monet and Gauguin.
The museum serves as a gathering place where locals and visitors experience both Japanese and international modern art. Walking through the galleries, you notice how the collection reflects different cultures and artistic traditions side by side in comfortable, spacious rooms.
The museum opens at 9:30 in the morning and closes at 5:00 in the afternoon, remaining closed on Mondays and during certain maintenance and exhibition change periods throughout the year. It is about a 2-minute walk from Bijutsukan-Toshokan-Mae Station on the Iizaka Line, buses stop nearby, and free parking is available for roughly 150 cars on site.
A notable part of the collection includes works by Ben Shahn, a Lithuanian-American artist who painted the fishing boat Lucky Dragon Five, which was caught in radioactive fallout from nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll in 1954. These pieces connect art history with a historical event that visitors often overlook when walking through the galleries.
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