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21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Hirosaka, Japan

The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (21, Kanazawa Nijūisseiki Bijutsukan) is a museum of contemporary art located in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. The museum was designed by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the architectural office SANAA in 2004. In October 2005, one year after its opening, the Museum marked 1,570,000 visitors. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic it attracted only 971,256 visitors, a drop of 63 percent from 2019, but it still ranked tenth on the list of most-visited art museums in the world. Since its founding, the museum's director has been Yuko Hasegawa.

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