National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, National art museum in Okazaki Park, Kyoto, Japan.

The National Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Okazaki Park within the Sakyō-ku district of Kyoto, specializing in modern Japanese works. The 1986 building by Fumihiko Maki sits amid greenery and combines clean geometric forms with large window surfaces.

The museum opened on March 1, 1963, as the Kyoto Annex of the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, housed in a former annex of the Kyoto Municipal Exhibition Hall for Industrial Affairs that the city transferred to the national museum after restoration. It became independent on June 1, 1967, as the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. The old building was dismantled in 1984, and the present building by Fumihiko Maki opened to the public on October 26, 1986.

The name reflects both national status and a regional focus on Kansai artists who developed their own creative traditions. Visitors encounter ceramics alongside textile art and paintings in rotating gallery spaces that treat different media with equal importance.

The museum stands in Okazaki Park: the Kyoto Prefectural Library is directly to its north, the Kyoto City Art Museum to its east, and the Miyako Messe hall to its west, with the Lake Biwa Canal flowing just south. The entrance is reached past a flat canopy on columns wrapped in printed panels, and the galleries open off a tall, pale hall with frosted windows above clear panes.

In 2016 the museum bought 106 Meiji-era craft pieces from the Shimizu Sannenzaka Museum for 1.08 billion yen, among them Namikawa Yasuyuki's cloisonné dish with cherry blossoms and butterflies and Ando Rokuzan's bamboo shoot with plum. The purchase brought a private collection of Meiji decorative art into national hands.