National Museum of Western Art
Tokyo, Japan
The National Museum of Western Art is Japan's principal public collection of Western art, located in Ueno Park in Tokyo. It opened in 1959 and was built around the Matsukata Collection, assembled by the industrialist Kojiro Matsukata and returned to Japan by France after the Second World War. The main building was designed by the modernist architect Le Corbusier and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016.
Its holdings span European painting and sculpture from the late medieval period to the early twentieth century, with notable groups of French Impressionist works and Rodin sculptures. The museum is associated with Saint Praxedis, a painting that has been attributed to Johannes Vermeer, though the attribution remains disputed.
