page_title: National Museum of Western Art
section_title: Collections
hierarchical_section_title: National Museum of Western Art / Collections
context_page_description: The National Museum of Western Art is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition.
  The museum is in the museum and zoo complex in Ueno Park in Taito, central Tokyo. It received 1,162,345 visitors in 2016.
context_section_description: NMWA has purchased art work every year since its establishment in its efforts to build and develop its permanent collection.  The museum houses about 4,500 works, including examples of painting and sculpture from the 14th through the beginning of the 20th century. The museum's holdings have expanded in the decades since the museum was first opened to the public:
  Paintings; 18th century and earlier
  
  The Main Building displays pre-18th-century paintings, including those by Veronese, Rubens, Brueghel, and Fragonard. Many of these paintings are religious paintings featuring imagery from Christianity.
  Paintings: 19th-20th century
  
  The New Wing displays 19th- to early 20th-century French paintings, including works by Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Moreau. The galleries also feature works by the next generation of artists, such as Marquet, Picasso, Soutin, Ernst, Miró, Dubuffet and Pollock.
  Drawings
  
  The NMWA drawing collection centers on works by such 18th- to 19th-century French artists as Boucher, Fragonard, Delacroix, Moreau, Rodin, and Cézanne.
  Prints
  
  The prints collection features works by Dürer, Holbein, Rembrandt, Callot, Piranesi, Goya, and Klinger, ranging from the 15th century through the early 20th century.
caption: Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1916, oil on canvas, 200.5 × 201 cm (78.9 × 79.1 in)
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