Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary art museum in Hijiyama Park, Minami-ku, Japan

The Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art is a building by architect Kisho Kurokawa in Hijiyama Park, with two floors above ground and two below; over 60 percent of its floor area is buried in the hill to fit the park's natural setting. Its exterior mixes an approach plaza recalling an ancient European square with triangular roofs evoking Japanese storehouses. Natural stone, tile and aluminium are used in ascending order along the vertical axis.

The museum opened in 1989 as Japan's first public contemporary art museum. Its collections focus on artistic responses to societal changes that the nation experienced in the postwar period.

Since opening, the museum has run open-call exhibitions: the citizen-oriented "Hiroshima no Bijutsu" ran until its 8th edition in 2003, and the nationwide "Shin-Kobo-ten" began in 2005. In 2007 Chim↑pom won its prize, but the planned show was cancelled after the group drew "Pika" in airplane trails over Hiroshima in October 2008. Since the 2023 renewal, the Hiroshima MoCA FIVE programme selects five entrants every other year.

The museum is in Hijiyama Park, about 500 m from Hiroden Hijiyama-shita tram stop; the Hiroshima Meipuru~pu loop bus stops 100 m away at the museum and manga library stop. The park lot holds about 120 cars and is free. The building is set into the hill, with two basement levels, so expect slopes and stairs in the park.

The building's architecture by Kisho Kurokawa uses a sequence of materials progressing from stone in the foundation to aluminum in the upper sections. This material progression represents a visual metaphor for human development across the structure.