Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art

The Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art (兵庫県立美術館, Hyōgo Kenritsu Bijutsukan) is a purpose-built municipal art gallery in Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It was opened in 2002. The major collections of the museum are foreign and Japanese sculptures, foreign and Japanese prints, Western-style and Japanese-style paintings associated with Hyogo Prefecture, Japanese great works in the modern era, and contemporary art. The museum has memorial rooms of Ryōhei Koiso and Kanayama Heizō. The building of the museum is a modern, concrete construction by famed architect Tadao Ando.