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National Art Center, Tokyo

art museum in Tokyo, Japan
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Summary

National Art Center, Tokyo is an art museum[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of art museum entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,603 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: International Architecture Awards[3], Good Design Award[4], BCS Prize[5]
  • Member of: Japan Consortium for Open Access Repository[6]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Roppongi[7]
  • Country: Japan[8]
  • Instance of: national museum[9]
  • Architect: Kisho Kurokawa[10], Nihon Sekkei[11]
  • Operator: Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art[12]
  • Main building contractor: Kajima Corporation[13], Taisei Corporation[14], 松村組[15], Shimizu Corporation[16], Obayashi Corporation[17], Sumitomo Mitsui Construction[18]
  • Commons category: National Art Center, Tokyo[19]
  • Inception: July 1, 2006[20]
  • Located on street: Tokyo Metropolitan Road Route 319[21]
  • Official website: http://nact.jp[22], http://www.nact.jp/english[23], https://www.nact.jp/[24]
  • Director / manager: Eriko Ōsaka[25]
  • Visitors per year: 2,039,947[26], 994,307[27], 2,384,415[28], 2,466,311[29], 2,623,156[30], 2,717,565[31], 1,921,526[32], 881,733[33]
  • Phone number: +81-47-316-2772[34]
  • Date of official opening: January 21, 2007[35]
  • Native label: 国立新美術館[36]
  • Hashtag: 国立新美術館[37]
  • Fax number: +81-3-3405-2531[38]
  • Open days: Sunday and Monday[39], Wednesday and Thursday[40], Friday and Saturday[41]
  • Closed on: Tuesday[42]
  • Adjacent structure or building: National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies[43], Aoyama Park[44], Aoyama Cemetery[45]
  • Number of viewers/listeners: 308,409[46]
  • Category for the interior of the item: Category:Interior of the National Art Center, Tokyo[47]
  • Social media followers: 267,558[48], 259,785[49]

Why It Matters

National Art Center, Tokyo has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[50] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[51]

FAQs

What awards did National Art Center, Tokyo receive?

Honors received include International Architecture Awards[3], Good Design Award[4], and BCS Prize[5].

Related Entities

art museum Japan National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [8] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . chi-athenaeum.org. chi-athenaeum.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [4] ↑ . g-mark.org. g-mark.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [5] ↑ . nikkenren.com. nikkenren.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [6] ↑ . jpcoar.repo.nii.ac.jp. Retrieved . jpcoar.repo.nii.ac.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . nact.jp. nact.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . nact.jp. nact.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Visitor Figures 2013. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . Visitor Figures 2014. wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . Visitor Figures 2015. wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . Visitor Figures 2016. wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . Art's most popular : Exhibition and museum visitor figures 2018. wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . Art's most popular : Exhibition and museum visitor figures 2019. wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Art's most popular : Exhibition and museum visitor figures 2021. wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . nact.jp. nact.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . nact.jp. nact.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . nact.jp. nact.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . nact.jp. Retrieved . nact.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . nact.jp. Retrieved . nact.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . nact.jp. Retrieved . nact.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  45. [47] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  46. [48] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  47. [49] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [50] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [51] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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