Ōtsuka Museum of Art

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Art museum in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Ōtsuka Museum of Art
大塚国際美術館 Ōtsuka Kokusai Bijutsukan
The museum in 2014

Established	1998 (1998)
Location	Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Type	Art museum
Collections	Full-size ceramic reproductions of noted artworks
Collection size	>1,000
Website	o-museum.or.jp

The Ōtsuka Museum of Art (大塚国際美術館, Ōtsuka Kokusai Bijutsukan) in Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture is an art museum founded in 1998 and is one of the largest exhibition spaces in Japan.^[1]

Established by Otsuka Pharmaceutical as a celebration of its 75th anniversary,^[2] it houses over a thousand full-size ceramic reproductions of major works of art, including the Sistine Chapel, Scrovegni Chapel, triclinium of the Villa of the Mysteries, and Guernica.^[3]^[4] The works are transfer-printed from photographs before being fired and retouched.^[5]^[6] The purpose of this is to give Japanese people who cannot travel abroad the opportunity to see these famous pieces.^[7] A robot named 'Mr Art' gives hour-long gallery talks.^[8] The museum cost industrialist Masahito Ōtsuka $400,000,000.^[9]

Gallery

Otsuka Museum of Art, Tokushima
Otsuka Museum of Art, Tokushima
Reproduction of Sistine Chapel

References

^ "Ōtsuka Museum of Art". Japan National Tourism Organization. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
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^ "Rauschenberg and Shigaraki". Ōtsuka Ohmi Ceramics Company. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
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^ "The biggest repro job in the world". The Telegraph. 30 December 1998. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2011.