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Fukui Fine Arts Museum

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Fukui Fine Arts Museum
Fukui Fine Arts Museum. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Fukui Fine Arts Museum (Fukui kenritsu bijutsukan) opened in Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, in 1977. The collection, numbering some 2,840 pieces, includes prints by Goya and Picasso and paintings by Iwasa Matabei and artists associated with Okakura Tenshin and the beginnings of the Nihon Bijutsuin.

The museum played and important role for contemporary artist Ay-O by hosting his first retrospective in 2006.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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