Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Kiyosumi, Tokyo
- Tue to Sun
- 10:00 to 18:00
- Mon
- Closed
When Monday is a public holiday, it closes the next weekday instead. Also closed between exhibitions and from 28 December to 1 January.
Source: mot-art-museum.jp, checked 5 Oct 2026.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is the city's big public museum of contemporary art, opened in 1995 at the north end of Kiba Park, with a collection of around 5,700 works from postwar Japan and abroad. The temporary shows draw the crowds. The MOT Collection galleries show the permanent holdings for a lower fee.
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Walk from Kiyosumi-shirakawa station through the backstreet roasters, about ten minutes. Closed Mondays, or the next weekday when Monday is a holiday.
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What's on at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Upcoming events at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, from the weekly Tokyo events calendar.
Tada Minami: Light, Dignified and Trembling
多田美波―光、凛と ゆれる
Time 10:00 to 18:00, November Fridays until 20:00 Station Kiyosumi-shirakawa (Oedo Line, Hanzomon Line), 13 min walk
MOT presents the first Tokyo solo exhibition in 35 years for Minami Tada, an artist who worked across sculpture, relief, chandeliers and architectural installation. The show traces her use of industrial materials from Japan's period of rapid economic growth.
Uploader; Vantey, Public domain Synchronic Constellation: Cross-Boundary Perspectives in Art
Rare large-scale introduction to modern Taiwanese art with approximately 200 Taiwanese artworks and 100 Japanese contemporaneous pieces plus over 500 archival documents. Organized in six thematic chapters featuring paintings, sculptures, prints, and photographs.
Uploader; Vantey, Public domain MOT Collection: Seeing the Light of Another Time Now
MOTコレクション いつかの光を今みている
Time 10:00 to 18:00 (last entry 17:30), until 20:00 on Fridays in November, closed Mondays Station Kiyosumi-shirakawa Station
A collection show on light and time with Kosemura Mami, Tsuchiya Kimio, Yayoi Kusama and Yokoo Tadanori, including newly acquired works.
Uploader; Vantey, Public domain TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2026
TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2026
Time Hours to be announced Station Kiyosumi-shirakawa (Hanzomon, Oedo Lines), 13 min walk
Publishers, galleries and artists from Japan and abroad sell art books and zines at their own stalls across the museum, over two long weekends, with a guest country focus.
Uploader; Vantey, Public domain Hans Haacke
ハンス・ハーケ
Time 10:00 to 18:00 Station Kiyosumi-shirakawa (Hanzomon Line, Oedo Line), 13 min walk
The first major retrospective in Asia of Hans Haacke (born 1936 in Cologne), the conceptual artist who turned 1960s New York conceptualism toward the systems linking power, money and culture. It ranges from his early environmental works to his pieces on political and corporate power.
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Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo · 1 exhibition Exhibition
Until 6 Jan · Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Kiyosumi
See the exhibition
- On now, until 6 Jan 横尾忠則_東京都現代美術館
Listing in Japanese. Titles are shown as the venue prints them.
Source: SCAI The Bathhouse
Nearby
Around Kiyosumi
Tokyo's coffee district, around a Meiji garden and old Fukagawa
Kiyosumi-Shirakawa is where Tokyo's specialty coffee boom found a home, in the warehouses and low-rise streets of old Fukagawa on the east bank of the Sumida. Between the roasters you'll find one of the city's finest stroll gardens, a full-size Edo neighbourhood indoors, the clam rice the area is named for, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.
Kiyosumi has 8 places on the Roam Tokyo map: 3 cafes, 2 museums, 1 park or garden, 1 restaurant and 1 bathhouse. Read the Kiyosumi guide.
Good to know
- What is the address of Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo?
- 4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku, Tokyo.
- What are the opening hours of Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo?
- Tue to Sun 10:00 to 18:00; Closed Mon. When Monday is a public holiday, it closes the next weekday instead. Also closed between exhibitions and from 28 December to 1 January.
- How do I get to Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo?
- The nearest station is Kiyosumi-shirakawa (Hanzomon / Oedo Line). Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is in Kiyosumi, Tokyo.
- How much does Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo cost?
- Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is mid-range, marked ¥¥ on the site's price scale.
- How long do you need at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo?
- Plan for 2 hours.
- When is the best time to visit Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo?
- Weekday afternoons.
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