A Message from the Director General

Spring 2025 Greeting

2025 is upon us. The National Art Center, Tokyo is maintaining and strengthening its commitment to “NACT-style innovation and accessibility.”

The NACT carried out its first crowdfunding campaign from November 18 of last year through January 31 this year. For the exhibition Living Modernity: Experiments in the Exceptional and Everyday 1920s–1970s, we received support from 488 donors, enabling the display of a full-scale reproduction of German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt Row House. Thanks to this support, we will be able to offer viewers a more enriched and engaging exhibition, and we would like to extend our deepest gratitude.

As an institution without a permanent collection, the NACT has maintained a strong commitment to “collection and provision of the library and information services.” We have redesigned our searchable database, the Art Commons, for a more intuitive user experience, which now includes options for search by prefecture and exhibition year. The website contains information on over 60,000 exhibitions held in Japan since our opening, and we encourage everyone to make active use of this resource.

Since we first opened, the National Art Center, Tokyo has offered nursing room (baby-care room), and with generous support from the Adobe Foundation, these facilities have recently been renovated. We focused on improving convenience to maximize comfort and peace of mind for families visiting with children.

For frequent, occasional, and first-time visitors alike, our goal is for our activities to deliver the joy of encountering art, and to offer new perspectives that broaden people’s minds and deepen their understanding of and empathy for others.
We hope that 2025 will be a year when many people move from division toward the path of dialogue.

Osaka Eriko
Director General
The National Art Center, Tokyo
February 4th, 2025