The National Art Center, Tokyo

{{Short description|Art museum in Tokyo, Japan}}

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| name = The National Art Center of Tokyo

| native_name = 国立新美術館

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| location = Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan

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| visitors = 2.0 million (2013)[http://www.museus.gov.br/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/TheArtNewspaper2013_ranking.pdf Top 100 Art Museum Attendance], The Art Newspaper, 2014. Retrieved on 13 July 2014.
Ranking 20th globally (2013)

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| director = Hideki Hayashida

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| website = {{URL|www.nact.jp}}

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{{nihongo|The National Art Center|国立新美術館|Kokuritsu Shin-Bijutsukan}} (NACT) is a museum in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. A joint project of the Agency for Cultural Affairs and the National Museums Independent Administrative Institution, it stands on a site formerly occupied by a research facility of the University of Tokyo and is adjacent to the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.

The building has been designed by Kisho Kurokawa. It is one of the largest exhibition spaces in the country. Access is from Nogizaka Station on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line or the Roppongi station of the Hibiya line or Oedo line.

Unlike Japan's other national art museums, NACT is an 'empty museum', without a collection, permanent display, and curators. Like Kunsthalle in German-speaking regions, it accommodates temporary exhibitions sponsored and curated by other organizations.{{cite book|author=Dr Masaaki Morishita|title=The Empty Museum: Western Cultures and the Artistic Field in Modern Japan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rut6BgAAQBAJ&pg=PT12|date=28 December 2012|publisher=Ashgate Publishing|isbn=978-1-4094-9263-4|page=12}} The policy has been successful. In its first fiscal year in 2007, it had 69 exhibitions organized by arts groups and 10 organized by NACT. Its Monet exhibition, held between 7 April and 2 July 2007, was the second most visited exhibition of the year, not only in Japan but in the world.

Its graphic visual identity was developed by graphic designer Kashiwa Sato of Tokyo-based Samurai Inc.

File:TheNationalArtCenterTokyo 2.JPG|Lobby

File:空中レストラン.JPG|Brasserie Paul Bocuse Le Musée

File:The National Art Center Courtyard 2015.jpg|Courtyard

File:National Art Center stairs 2015.jpg|Stairs