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National Museum of Western Art
UNESCO World Heritage Site

Its logo and National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo designed by Le Corbusier
Official nameMusée National des Beaux-Arts de l’Occident
Location7-7 Ueno Imperial Grant Park, Taitō, Tokyo, Japan
Part ofThe Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement
CriteriaCultural: (i), (ii), (vi)
Reference1321rev-016
Inscription2016 (40th Session)
Area0.93 ha (0.0036 sq mi)
Buffer zone116.17 ha (0.4485 sq mi)
Websitewww.nmwa.go.jp/en/
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The National Museum of Western Art (国立西洋美術館, Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan, lit. "National Western Art Museum", NMWA) is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition.

The museum is in the Ueno Park in Taitō, central Tokyo. It received 1,162,345 visitors in 2016.[1]

  1. ^ "Visitor Figures 2016" (PDF). The Art Newspaper Review. April 2017. p. 14. Retrieved 23 March 2018.

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