Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts

The museum opened in Showa 11 (1936) in a corner of Tennoji Park. The site was once the main residence of the Sumitomo family, with its garden, and was given to the City of Osaka so that an art museum could be built there. The original main hall and the exhibition rooms added later underground together make three floors above ground and two below, and the galleries of the main hall hold special exhibitions and displays from the collection. Those displays draw on more than 8,500 holdings of Japanese and Chinese painting, sculpture and craft, shown from time to time along with works deposited by temples and shrines, and many of them are designated Important Cultural Properties. The Tennoji Gallery, formerly the underground exhibition room, is in constant use for juried exhibitions held by art societies. The main hall also houses an art institute where drawing, painting and sculpture are studied in practice. Curators give gallery talks, and specialists give practical instruction in art to primary and middle school pupils.

Translated and shortened from the Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City tourist listings (観光施設一覧, CC BY 4.0).

Osaka Prefecture's list of designated cultural properties names this place as the owner of 19, among them 14 Important Cultural Properties. Objects are not necessarily on view.

And 13 more on the list. 大阪府 文化財一覧 (CC BY 4.0), current at 2024-05-01. Joined by owner name; long names are shortened to the buildings or the object.