Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art

or IPMA IPMA is an English acronym. IPMA stands for "Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art"; see Ishikawa Museum of Art (IPMA), About IPWMA ; retrieved 2012-2-8. is a prefectural art museum in central Honshū.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Museums" in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 671-673.  It is in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan.IPMA,  History  It was built on the edge of the Kenrokuen GardenWhipple, Charles et al. (2005). Seeing Japan, p. 35. near the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.

The museum's art includes some of the prefecture's most important cultural assets and works by artists with some connection to the region.Reiber, Beth  et al. (2010).  Frommer's Japan, p. 385.

History
IPMA was first opened in 1959.  When the collection outgrew its original building, a new one was built.  The current structure was completed in 1983.

The core of the museum's holdings come from the Maeda family collection which was formerly housed in at the University of Tokyo.Lillehoj, Elizbeth. (2007). Acquisition: Art and Ownership in Edo-period Japan. p. 89.

References

Other websites

 Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art website  ;  

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Category:Ishikawa Prefecture
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