Abashiri City Art Museum

About

Abashiri City Museum of Art opened in 1972, founded directly by a donation of 38 posthumous works by Yoshikazu Igushi, a Western-style painter from Abashiri, given by local art collector Tatsuo Miyagawa. It was the second municipal art museum to open in Hokkaido, and the first among them to be built as a purpose-made new structure. Located at Minami 6-jo Nishi 1-chome in Abashiri, the two-story building houses a hall, a reading room, and a practice studio on the first floor, with four exhibition rooms on the second floor. Its collection centers on works by artists connected to Abashiri, including Yoshikazu Igushi and Michio Takahashi, along with works taking Abashiri and the Sea of Okhotsk as their subject.