Miyanomori International Museum of Art, Sapporo, Art museum in Miyanomori district, Sapporo, Japan.
The Miyanomori International Museum of Art is an art museum in Sapporo with multiple gallery spaces dedicated to contemporary works. Its collections focus on Japanese and international art objects spanning diverse media and periods.
The Miyanomori Art Museum opened in April 2006 as Hokkaido's main contemporary art museum, showing international and Japanese work. Its programme ran until around 2011, when Guillaume Bottazzi created a 900 m² site-specific work on the building, made with the French Embassy in Japan. The museum is now closed.
The museum displays works by Japanese artists from the post-war period, with a particular focus on photography and conceptual approaches to art. The exhibitions reveal how the artistic scene in Hokkaido developed and connect local creators with international contemporary practices.
The museum is now closed, so there are no opening hours or visits to plan; the building stands in the Miyanomori district of Sapporo, southwest of the city centre near Maruyama. Its 900 m² facade work by Guillaume Bottazzi, made in 2011 with the French Embassy in Japan, can still be seen from outside.
The museum holds an exceptionally large collection of photographic works, making it a major hub for this art form. This sets it apart from many other art institutions that treat photography as secondary.
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