Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art

The National Museum of Art is located in Okazaki Park, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. Its English name is The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and its abbreviation is MoMAK. It opened in 1963 (Showa 38) as the Kyoto branch of the National Museum of Modern Art (now the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo). It became independent in 1967 and changed its name to its current one. Since 2001 (Heisei 13), it has been managed by the Independent Administrative Institution, the National Museum of Art. It focuses on collecting modern Japanese paintings and crafts from western Japan, mainly in Kyoto and the Kansai region, and is notable for its collection of Japanese paintings and oil paintings from the Kyoto art world, as well as the Kawakatsu Collection, the largest collection of craft works by Kawai Kanjiro in Japan. As of 2010, the museum's collection contained approximately 9,800 pieces of art.

When the Kyoto Annex first opened, it was a remodeled version of the Industrial Promotion Hall Annex, which had been built in 1937 (Showa 12). A new building was then completed in 1986 (Showa 61). This new building has four stories above ground and one below, and was designed by Maki Fumihiko, a recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (the world's most prestigious architecture award, run by the Hyatt Foundation in the United States).

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京都府京都市左京区岡崎公園内にある国立美術館。英文名称はThe National Museum of Modern Art, Kyotoで、略称は MoMAK。1963年（昭和38）に国立近代美術館（現在の東京国立近代美術館）京都分館として開館した。1967年に独立し、現名称に改称。2001年（平成13）からは独立行政法人国立美術館の運営となった。京都や関西を中心に西日本の近代日本画や工芸品の収集に力を入れており、京都画壇の日本画や油絵をはじめ、河井寛次郎の工芸作品で国内最大の川勝コレクションの収蔵なども特徴になっている。所蔵作品数は2010年時点でおよそ9800点にのぼる。

　京都分館開館時の建物は、1937年（昭和12）に建築された勧業館別館を改造したものであった。その後、1986年（昭和61）に新館が竣工(しゅんこう)、これは地上4階地下1階の建物で、設計者はプリツカー賞（The Pritzker Architecture Prize、世界で最高権威ともいわれる建築家賞で、運営はアメリカのハイアット財団）を受賞した槇文彦(まきふみひこ)である。

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