Artizon Museum
Artizon Museum 2=アーティゾン美術館, until 2018 Bridgestone Museum of Art, is an art museum in Tokyo, Japan.
The museum was founded in 1952 by the founder of Bridgestone Tire Co., Ishibashi Shojiro. The museum's collections include Impressionists, Post-Impressionists and twentieth-century art by Japanese, European and American artists, as well as ceramic works from Ancient Greece. The museum was located in the headquarters of the Bridgestone Corporation in Chūō, Tokyo.
Closure and eventual reopening
The museum closed its doors on 18 May 2015 in order to make way for the construction of a new building, to where the museum would be relocated, reopening in January 2020. Construction of the new building begun with a groundbreaking ceremony on June 17, 2016 and was completed in 2019. The museum's new name was announced in 2018, combining the words "art" and "horizon". During the long-term closure, various items from the museum's collection have been loaned out for display in other institutions.Selected artists
- Edgar Degas
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Camille Pissarro
- Édouard Manet
- Vincent van Gogh
- Paul Gauguin
- Gustave Moreau
- Paul Cézanne
- Claude Monet
- Amedeo Clemente Modigliani
- Maurice Denis
- Georges Rouault
- Pablo Picasso
- Paul Klee
- Narashige Koide
- Tsuguharu Foujita
- Fujishima Takeji
- Shigeru Aoki