This museum was just incredible. It was only 1000¥ for a single adult. It was easily accessible from the subway station as well.
The staff was wonderful and friendly; they gave me a device with connected headphones that had audio descriptions for many pieces in English. I visit lots of museums and have never been to one that has offered that for free. I felt much more knowledgeable about and appreciative of the art because of the device.
I was also pleasantly surprised by the mix of mediums: sculpture, paintings, gorgeous furniture, and vases. I’ve never been to an art museum that showcased furniture. Many of the pieces had heavy nature motifs which I enjoyed very much.
They even had a Picasso painting, but understandably I couldn’t take a picture of that one. There were also 5 Rodin sculptures. One of the paintings in the first room even had a special magnifying panel that you could control with a button. I was very impressed.
There is a cafe attached but I didn’t have time to visit it.
The gift shop had postcards of almost every piece so I bought a few of my favorite pieces; 110¥ each, I believe.
There were many places to sit while looking at the art, which made my experience more comfortable.
I would allow yourself 2.5-3 hours to listen to all the audio descriptions and enjoy all the art in its entirety.
I really enjoyed going here, and it was well worth the 1000¥ to go. Had a wonderful display of French art and furniture. Audio in English included with tour. My only improvement would be that on the 4th floor numbers are actually in order.
I went to the Tomoko Fuse origami exhibit and it was great. The museum displayed her work really well.
The collection is fantastic but what's up with the audio English guide? It's the most dumb dumb guide I've ever heard. There's like a brilliant captivating abstract piece that's done with wild inks I've never seen in some hybrid neo modern impressionist motif and the guide is like
"a blue sky and a red house is depicted on an open field! The house is a common 19th century cottage from the Scottish Highlands in the center of the frame. Puffs of smoke pour out the chimney. *Beep*"
And you're like "wait what? That's it?!" It's like a brilliant exercise in trying to miss as much as possible yet still arguably be accurate.
Just replace it, instead with interpretive experimental music for each work. That'd be amazing
Excellent, very relaxing well curated museum. Not to be missed while visiting Nagoya
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