What other travelers are saying about Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
While the garden is a nice brief visit, the museum itself is nearly empty. The only exhibits to be found are on the second floor, and the rest of the museum is either off-limits or simply barren. Maybe in the future their collection will improve but as of now this is a place to skip.
Dont waste your time and money, it's such a small exhibit, you can pass it through in 10 minutes. Alot of pots and dishes, If that interest you, a few nice statues, but again really not worth it.
It's an embarrassment for a city museum. The building looks good and the staff are nice.
While the Van Gogh exposition was nice, at it put a Japanese touch on the subject, the permanent exposition was disappointing to say the least, both in terms of quantity and of quality. The basement anime style drawing gallery is a nice bonus.
Not worth the visit – totally disappointing.
I went here without reading reviews, just trusted the name and assumed it would be something worth seeing. Big mistake. 2,400 yen for a ticket? Way overpriced.
The place was crowded to the point of being uncomfortable, packed mostly with elderly visitors. The line to buy tickets was long and slow, and once inside, there was no space to properly enjoy anything. The exhibition area was tiny, dark, and honestly pretty boring. Very few items on display, and none of them stood out.
To make it worse, no photography allowed inside, which is frustrating when there’s barely anything to see in the first place. There were very few toilets and almost no trash bins – which made the whole experience feel even more inconvenient.
And then the so-called “garden”? A tiny, unimpressive space, and yet they charge an extra 300 yen just to enter it. What a joke.
There are so many other places in Japan – even free museums – that offer way more than this. Skip it.
The building itself was very beautiful both inside and outside!
We were so lucky that it was showcaseing Van Gogh
's paintings! The whole experience was awesome! Staff was friendly and very helpful.
