Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Tokyo
The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography specializes in still and moving images and contains 18,000 photographs, 2,300 image documents and 16,000 books about photography. The Museum is the first of its kind in Japan. In addition to Exhibition Galleries of still and moving images, it also has its Library, Atelier, Image Permanence Laboratory for research about the science of preservation, and Hall to show films. Its collection contains not only the works of the best Japanese photographers, but also a number of photographs by foreign artists such as Gustave Le Gray, Ansel Adams and W. Eugene Smith.
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Address: Ebisu Garden Place:1-13-3 Mita, Meguro-ku, Tokyo
Admission Fee: 500 yen, additional fee for special exhibitions
Closed: Mondays (if the Monday is a national holiday, the following day), New Years holidays'
[Walk]Yamanote Line Ebisu Station/Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line Ebisu Station/On foot/8 min.
