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Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art

Hokkaido · Sapporo · Art & Crafts

Japanese name: 北海道立近代美術館

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WHAT TO DOHokkaido Museum of Modern Art

The province's central art museum, known for holding the Ecole de Paris painter Pascin in depth, alongside Hokkaido artists and studio glass.

WHEREHokkaido

Central Hokkaido · Sapporo

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Overview

The province's central art museum, known for holding the Ecole de Paris painter Pascin in depth, alongside Hokkaido artists and studio glass.

The pillars of the collection

The Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art collects works along several axes: not only art associated with Hokkaido, but also Japanese modern art, the Ecole de Paris centered on Pascin, and glass crafts from Japan and abroad. A distinguishing feature is that regional art and expression from abroad can be considered side by side, and understanding deepens if you learn the collecting policy before viewing the exhibitions, rather than going only for a single artist.

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Hokkaido's climate and glass

The museum's official explanation links the hardness of glass and its property of transmitting light with the images of Hokkaido's winter, snow and ice. This affinity with the local climate was the reason it was chosen as a collecting field. The collection includes Japanese modern, European modern and world contemporary glass. By comparing color, transparency and surface decoration, you can read both the shared nature of the material and differences in form.

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About this place

The Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (北海道立近代美術館, Hokkaidō-ritsu Kindai Bijutsukan) opened in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1977. The collection includes works by Jules Pascin and the École de Paris as well as by modern Japanese artists, in particular those with a connection to Hokkaidō. There are five related prefectural art museums elsewhere in Sapporo and Hokkaidō: Migishi Kōtarō Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art, and Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido.

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Key facts

Founded / opened:1977 Highlights / collection:Pascin collection, Artists connected with Hokkaido, School of Paris Genre:Western-style painting, Western art, Contemporary art

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