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Holds a local company's collection of Impressionist and Ecole de Paris paintings, exceptional for a regional museum.
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Yamagata Museum of Art (山形美術館, Yamagata bijutsukan) opened in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, in 1964. The Museum's annex opened in 1968. In 1985 the new three-story main building opened; the annex was renovated the following year. The collection includes works by Manet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, and Takahashi Yuichi, as well as Yosa Buson's six-panel byōbu of 1779, Oku no Hosomichi (Important Cultural Property). Many of these Impressionist works are from the collection of Yoshino Gypsum Co., Ltd (吉野石膏), deposited at the Museum.
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Founded / opened：1964 Highlights / collection：Impressionists from the Yoshino Gypsum collection, Monet, Renoir and Chagall Genre：Western art, Nihonga (Japanese-style painting), Western-style painting
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