Ōhara Art Museum

Ōhara Art Museum

The Ōhara Art Museum in Kurashiki was the first collection of Western art to be permanently exhibited in Japan. The museum opened in 1930 and originally consisted almost entirely of French painting and sculpture of the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection has now expanded to include paintings of the Italian Renaissance and of the Dutch and Flemish 17th century. Well-known American and Italian artists of the 20th century are also included in the collection.

The basis of the collection was formed by Ōhara Magosaburō on the advice of the Japanese painter Kojima Torajirō (1881-1929) and the French artist Edmond-François Aman-Jean (1860-1935).

The museum is accessible just outside the south entrance to Kurashiki Station.


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