Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Kiyosumi, Tokyo
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is the city's big public museum of contemporary art, opened in 1995 at the north end of Kiba Park, with a collection of around 5,700 works from postwar Japan and abroad. The temporary shows draw the crowds. The MOT Collection galleries show the permanent holdings for a lower fee.
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Insider tip
Walk from Kiyosumi-shirakawa station through the backstreet roasters, about ten minutes. Closed Mondays, or the next weekday when Monday is a holiday.
What's on at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Upcoming events at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, from the weekly Tokyo events calendar.
Tada Minami: Light, Dignified and Trembling
多田美波―光、凛と ゆれる
Time 10:00 to 18:00, November Fridays until 20:00 Station Kiyosumi-shirakawa (Oedo Line, Hanzomon Line), 13 min walk
MOT presents the first Tokyo solo exhibition in 35 years for Minami Tada, an artist who worked across sculpture, relief, chandeliers and architectural installation. The show traces her use of industrial materials from Japan's period of rapid economic growth.
Uploader; Vantey, Public domain Synchronic Constellation: Cross-Boundary Perspectives in Art
Rare large-scale introduction to modern Taiwanese art with approximately 200 Taiwanese artworks and 100 Japanese contemporaneous pieces plus over 500 archival documents. Organized in six thematic chapters featuring paintings, sculptures, prints, and photographs.
Uploader; Vantey, Public domain Hans Haacke
ハンス・ハーケ
Time 10:00 to 18:00 Station Kiyosumi-shirakawa (Hanzomon Line, Oedo Line), 13 min walk
The first major retrospective in Asia of Hans Haacke (born 1936 in Cologne), the conceptual artist who turned 1960s New York conceptualism toward the systems linking power, money and culture. It ranges from his early environmental works to his pieces on political and corporate power.
Uploader; Vantey, Public domain MOT Annual 2026
MOTアニュアル2026
Time 10:00 to 18:00 Station Kiyosumi-shirakawa (Hanzomon Line, Oedo Line), 13 min walk
MOT's yearly group show of contemporary art made in Tokyo. This edition focuses on performance that draws on personal and shared memory, across contemporary art, stage work and experimental music.
Uploader; Vantey, Public domain Nearby
Around Kiyosumi
Tokyo's coffee district, around a Meiji garden and old Fukagawa
Kiyosumi-Shirakawa is where Tokyo's specialty coffee boom found a home, in the warehouses and low-rise streets of old Fukagawa on the east bank of the Sumida. Between the roasters you'll find one of the city's finest stroll gardens, a full-size Edo neighbourhood indoors, the clam rice the area is named for, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.
Kiyosumi has 8 places on the Roam Tokyo map: 3 cafes, 2 museums, 1 park or garden, 1 restaurant and 1 bathhouse. Read the Kiyosumi guide.
Good to know
- How do I get to Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo?
- The nearest station is Kiyosumi-shirakawa (Hanzomon / Oedo Line). Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is in Kiyosumi, Tokyo.
- How much does Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo cost?
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- How long do you need at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo?
- Plan for 2 hours.
- When is the best time to visit Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo?
- Weekday afternoons.
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