Fukuoka City Art Museum

About

The Fukuoka Art Museum opened on 3 November 1979 in Ohori Park, in a building by Kunio Maekawa, a master of Japanese modern architecture. After closing in September 2016 for about two and a half years of renovation that preserved the original design while updating its functions, it reopened on 21 March 2019. Its collection exceeds 16,000 works, ranging from twentieth-century and later art — including Salvador Dali's 'The Madonna of Port Lligat' (1950) and Yayoi Kusama's 'Pumpkin' (1994) — to works by Kyushu-born painters such as Aoki Shigeru and Sakamoto Hanjiro, materials of the Kuroda lords of Fukuoka, Buddhist art from Tokoin temple, and tea utensils of the Matsunaga Collection.