Town or city Nara, Nara Prefecture Floor area 2,300 m Phone +81 742-22-9811 Architect Kisho Kurokawa | Country Japan Opened April 1992 Floor count 2 | |
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Address 600-1 Takabatakecho, Nara, Nara Prefecture 630-8301, Japan Hours Closed now Wednesday9:30AM–5PMThursday9:30AM–5PMFriday9:30AM–5PMSaturday9:30AM–5PMSunday9:30AM–5PMMonday(Vernal Equinox Day)ClosedTuesday9:30AM–5PM Similar Shin‑Yakushi‑ji, Nara Prefectural Museum, Nara National Museum, Museum of Japanese Art, Isui‑en | ||
Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City (入江泰吉記念奈良市写真美術館, Irie Taikichi Kinen Nara-shi Shashin Bijutsukan) opened in Nara, Japan, in 1992. Located near Shin-Yakushi-ji and designed by Kishō Kurokawa, the Museum was formerly known as the Nara City Museum of Photography (奈良市写真美術館). The collection includes the complete oeuvre of Irie Taikichi (1905 – 1992), some 80,000 works; a set of 1,025 Meiji and Taishō glass plates by Kudō Risaburō (工藤利三郎) (1848 – 1929) that are a Registered Tangible Cultural Property; and photographs by Tsuda Yōho (津田洋甫) (1923 – 2014).
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