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Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum · Whole site, seen from Ueno Park and from inside the museum

6Main Building and Architecture

Kunio Maekawa's red brick complex of 1975 and the memory of the 1926 building it replaced. Look at the architecture itself before and after the galleries.

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The Kunio Maekawa Building
The Kunio Maekawa Building
Kunio Maekawa, Opened 1975, renovated 2010 to 2012
Ueno Park, Taito ward
The First Museum of 1926
The First Museum of 1926
Okada Shinichiro, 1926, demolished 1975
Archive displays and panels inside the museum; site now occupied by the present building