The world of Saitama Museum of Modern Art (MOMAS)MOMAS brings together more than four thousand modern and contemporary works in Kisho Kurokawa's architecture, from Western masters to artists linked to Saitama.
November 3, 1982Opening of MOMAS in Kita-Urawa Park
Kisho KurokawaArchitect of his first art museum
2022Fortieth anniversary of the institution
4,200 works 4,200Modern and contemporary corpus, overall institutional estimate
Hand paintedReal oil painting, no print.
Formats of your choiceA composition adapted to the dimensions ordered.
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Kita-Urawa Park · Since 1982 · Western modernity and Japanese creation
MOMAS brings together more than four thousand modern and contemporary works in Kisho Kurokawa's architecture, from Western masters to artists linked to Saitama.
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama opened on November 3, 1982 in the greenery of Kita-Urawa Park. The building is the first art museum designed by Kisho Kurokawa, a figure of Japanese metabolism. Its architecture connects galleries and parks and outdoor sculptures according to an idea of coexistence between culture and environment. MOMAS today brings together around four thousand two hundred works and documents. The collection combines modern Western painting and Japanese art from the 19th and 20th centuries, artists linked to the Saitama prefecture and contemporary creation. Monet, Picasso, Chagall and Foujita rub shoulders with Saito Yori, Tanaka Yasushi and Morita Tsunetomo. The museum is also known for its chairs design, made available to visitors so that the modern object is experienced rather than just observed. The paintings chosen follow the transformations of the French landscape: the millstones and Rouelles at Monet, the body in outdoors at Renoir, then the Éragny countryside at Pissarro. The selection "Museum of Modern Art of Saitama (MOMAS)" notably compares Les Meules in Giverny, sunset - Monet and View taken in Rouelles - Claude Monet. His reading prioritize details.
At MOMAS, modernity is looked at and practiced: the architecture, park sculptures and designer chairs extend the works into the visitor experience.
Course & style
Journey, subjects and pictorial language
Design a prefectural museum
Planning, acquisition funds and construction prepare an institution dedicated to modern art. This milestone sheds light on the "Museum of Modern Art of Saitama (MOMAS)" collection, prioritizing details.
Opening in the park
The museum inaugurates its activities with an exhibition ranging from Impressionism to the School of Paris.
An expanding collection
International artists and creators linked to Saitama are gradually composing a collection of more than four thousand works.
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Western modernity
Monet, Signac, Picasso and Chagall provide major benchmarks for the transformations of European art. This trait guides a reading of "Saitama Museum of Modern Art (MOMAS)" focused on details.
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Saitama Artists
Painting and sculpture follow the trajectories of creators born, trained or active in the prefecture.
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Metabolist architecture
Kurokawa organizes volumes, circulations and the park around the idea of symbiosis.
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Chair Museum
Designer seats can be tried, connecting modern aesthetics and everyday use.
Explore by universe
How to discover the Saitama Museum of Modern Art?
The available works span nearly a century of landscape and figure, from Monet's youth to Pissarro's structured countryside.
Grindstones01
Giverny at sunset
The agricultural form becomes the stable support for variations in light and season.
For a warm atmosphere. Reading "Museum of Modern Art of Saitama (MOMAS)" through details.Rouelles02
Young Monet
An early landscape shows how the artist still constructs space before impressionist fragmentation.
For historical readingRenoir03
Three bathers
Bodies and nature come together in a scene where drawing and color seek a new balance.
For a figurative compositionPissarro04
The cowherd in Éragny
Rural work is part of a daily campaign animated by light and touch.
For a peaceful sceneSaitama05
Local artists
The regional collection gives local depth to the international narrative of modernity.
To understand the collectionDesign06
Sit in the museum
Chairs transform a history of shapes into a direct experience of comfort and use.
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Works to discover
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