Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Photography museum in Yebisu Garden Place, Tokyo, Japan.
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum is an art museum in Yebisu Garden Place dedicated to photography. The building has three exhibition floors featuring historical photographs and contemporary works by artists from around the world.
The museum first opened in June 1990 in a converted live house in Ebisu, about 300 metres from its present site. Construction of the Yebisu Garden Place building began in 1991 and was completed in 1994; the museum opened there in January 1995. It closed for renovation from September 2014 to August 2016, when it adopted the nickname Top Museum.
The collection documents how photography has shaped the way people see and record the world around them. Visitors experience how images from different periods reveal what mattered to society at each moment in time.
The museum is easy to reach by train, located near Ebisu Station. Hours vary by day of the week, so check ahead before planning your visit.
The fourth-floor library holds 36,500 books and 1,400 magazine titles, and the museum's own catalogues are usually sold only at the museum shop, without ISBNs. The building itself is free to enter; only the exhibitions are ticketed.
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