This museum hosts blockbuster shows with art on loan from local and international museums (such as New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art); you could be lucky and catch the likes of Van Gogh and Renoir, or a Japanese master such as Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita. Other exhibition halls are given over to local artistic associations, whose shows include works (ceramics, calligraphy etc) from living artists.
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art
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