HokkaidoArt & CraftsSapporo
Hokkaido 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.
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HokkaidoArt & CraftsSapporo
Migishi Kotaro Museum of Art
A single-artist museum for Kotaro Migishi, born in Sapporo and dead at 31 - his whole restless change of manner fits in a few rooms.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsSapporo
Sapporo Art Park Museum
Forty hectares of woodland holding both an indoor museum and 74 outdoor sculptures, half-buried in snow for part of the year.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsSapporo
Hongo Shin Memorial Museum of Sculpture
On the site of the sculptor Shin Hongo's own studio, holding the models for the monuments that stand in streets across Japan.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsAsahikawa
Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art
Collecting around 'form in wood' - a policy that follows directly from Asahikawa's furniture industry.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsAsahikawa
Nakahara Teijiro Memorial Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture
The sculpture of Teijiro Nakahara, dead young, shown in a 1902 army officers' club that is itself an Important Cultural Property.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsObihiro
Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art
Built around printmaking, in a wood in Midorigaoka park, with regular shows of artists from the Tokachi plain.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsShikaoi
Kanda Nissho Memorial Museum of Art
A farmer who painted while working the land and died at 32; his unfinished horse, brushed onto plywood, is the centrepiece.
Nakasatsunai
Aihara Kyuichiro Museum
In a converted bathhouse at the heart of a small museum village, for a painter who kept painting Hokkaido's nature.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsKushiro
Hokkaido Kushiro Museum of Art
Gallery and theatre in one building, collecting eastern Hokkaido artists and work taking the Kushiro marshes as subject.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsKushiro
Kushiro City Museum of Art
Inside a lifelong learning centre, quietly showing and collecting the work of local artists.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsAbashiri
Abashiri City Museum of Art
One of the older municipal museums in the province, built around Kaichi Igushi's paintings of the Okhotsk fisheries.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsHakodate
Hokkaido Hakodate Museum of Art
Unusual in collecting calligraphy as its central pillar, around Ogitei Kaneko, who founded modern verse calligraphy.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsOtaru
Otaru Art Base
Four historic banks and warehouses turned into one museum complex; the stained glass came from English churches.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsOtaru
Otaru City Museum of Art
Three local artists get permanent rooms, among them Yutoku Ichihara, who printed from corroded metal plates.
Iwanai
Kida Kinjiro Museum of Art
The painter behind a famous novel's protagonist; he fished for a living, lost his early work to fire, and kept painting.
Iwanai
Arai Memorial Museum of Art
Some three hundred Picasso prints on a hill above the Japan Sea - an unexpected centre of Western art in a small town.
Kutchan
Ogawara Shu Memorial Art Museum
A painter who began in Surrealism, returned home, and spent the rest of his life on one mountain and its animals.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsTomakomai
Tomakomai Art Museum
Art and archaeology in one museum, with the paper and port industries that made the town treated as a third strand.
Muroran
Muroran Citizens' Art Museum
A museum built from citizens' donations in a steel town, and collecting the paintings its factories provoked.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsEbetsu
Ebetsu Ceramic Art Center
In a brick-making town: exhibitions of ceramics beside a workshop where visitors handle the clay themselves.
Fukagawa
Fukagawa Art Hall Toshukan
A small museum inside a commercial building by the station, built on two local painters and changing its shows often.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsTakikawa
Takikawa Art and Natural History Museum
Art and natural history under one roof - Sorachi printmakers beside the fossil sea cow dug up in the city.
Toyako
Toyako Museum of Art
A small municipal gallery by the lake, showing landscape and daily life in a district that has lived through repeated eruptions.