The National Art Center, Tokyo
The National Art Center Tokyo (Japanese国立 新 美术馆, Kokuritsu Shin Bijutsukan, literally " New Art Museum " ), also internationally NACT, National Art Center Tokyo, is an exhibition building opened in 2007 for Art in Tokyo's Minato district.
Overview
Established in 2007, Art Center is one of the last works of the architect Kisho Kurokawa. It takes the place of a building complex one, which was used before the Second World War as a barracks after the war as a scientific institution of the University of Tokyo. [Note 1] The system consists of a box-like part of the building that contains the exhibition rooms on the ground floor and two additional floors. Previously set is an undulating glass facade (height 21.6 m, width 160 m), which extends to the 2nd floor and offers space for two mushroom-like towers. The tower carries a restaurant, the other, smaller coffee shop.
Operation
For exhibitions are 10 halls with 1000 m² and are awarded to publicly advertised exhibitions, organized by art associations. Balconies at the rear of the building provide a view to the outside without leaving the exhibition. These two halls are each 2000 square meters for exhibitions. A lecture hall, 3 seminar rooms, restaurant, café, art library and stalls complete the furnishings.
As the art center, unlike the Japanese name suggests, not a museum with its own collection, but is a space for exhibitions, it relieves one hand, the art museums, which may use the premises only limited for the presentation of its collection during special exhibitions. On the other hand the center of competing with existing showrooms, for example, those of the city.
The NACT, together with the private museums, the Mori Art Museum and the Suntory Museum of Art, " Art Triangle Roppongi ". The NACT is easily accessible via the subway station Nogisaki the Chiyoda line, of which it has a direct access.