Mie Prefectural Museum of Art

About

A ten-minute walk from Tsu Station in Mie Prefecture, this museum opened on September 25, 1982, as the first full-fledged art museum in the Chubu-Tokai region. The building was designed by the Tomie Architectural Design Office, which won the Chubu Architecture Award that same year and saw the building selected for the Public Architecture Hundred Selections in 1998. The collection numbers over 6,000 works, spanning artists connected to Mie Prefecture such as Soga Shohaku alongside Western art centered on Spain, a category added to the museum's collecting policy in 1992. Among its notable holdings are 44 fusuma paintings by Soga Shohaku, passed down through the old Nagashima family of Saiku. After a six-year restoration, they were unveiled at the 2012 exhibition "Shohaku Shock," held to mark the museum's 30th anniversary. Admission to the permanent collection is 310 yen for adults and 210 yen for students, with free entry for high school students and younger.