Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art

Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (北九州市立美術館, Kitakyūshū Shiritsu Bijutsukan) is an art museum in Japan. It is on a hill in Tobata ward of Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture. The museum has 6,000 artworks. The museum shows the work of Japanese artists, like Hokusai's woodblock print The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai. The collection of Western art includes a portrait of Edouard Manet and his wife painted by Edgar Degas in 1869. The current building was designed by Arata Isozaki. It was built in 1974. History The municipal art collection was established in the 19th century. References Other websites Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art website (in Japanese) "Campaign & Products," 2004 exhibition Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine