10 Art Museums in Tohoku That You Shouldn't Miss

＜October 22,2018 - April 19,2019＞museum closed for winter Teizo Morohashi (1934-2003), founder of XEBIO Corporation.He spent roughly 10 years collecting works of art for a museum. He donated these, together with the museum site, buildings, and other facilities, to the Morohashi Museum of Modern Art Public-Interest Foundation based on his vision of “Enabling a wide range of people to enjoy and experience numerous masterpieces of Western modern art.” That marked the opening of the Morohashi Museum of Modern Art in the picturesque Aizu-Bandai-kogen area of his home prefecture of Fukushima in 1999. The museum’s collection of Dali works is the third largest in the world after those of the Dali Museum in the U.S. state of Florida and the Dali Theatre and Museum in Figueres, Spain, and it is the only museum in Asia where Dali’s works are on permanent exhibit.

▼The first museum of photography in Japan Ken Domon is one of the representative photographers of postwar Japan. He took news photos grounded in realism, portraits and snapshots of famous and ordinary people, as well as photos of cultural assets such as temples and Buddhist statues. His lens captured moments that revealed truths in the turbulent Showa era. Ken Domon Museum of Photography was built in his hometown of Sakata in October 1983 as the first Japanese museum dedicated solely to photographs, and is said to be the only photography museum in the world built for an individual. Here, all 70,000 pieces of his photographic work, including his lifework, “A Pilgrimage through Old Temples,” “Muroji Temple,” “Hiroshima,” “The Children in Chikuho,” “Bunraku Puppets,” and “Features” are preserved and shown to the public in regular succession.