The Kyoto National Museum has buildings by Katayama Tōkuma, the Special Exhibition Hall of 1895, Morita Keiichi, the Collections Hall of 1966, and Yoshio Taniguchi, the Heisei Chishinkan Wing completed in 2014. The Imperial Museum of Kyoto was built to display art owned by temples and shrines, plus items donated by the Imperial Household Ministry. The infobox gives establishment in May 1897, while the text says construction finished in October 1895 and the museum opened in 1897.
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It was renamed Kyoto National Museum in 1952. The museum merged into NICH in 2007. It is an art museum focused on pre-modern Japanese and Asian art, with regular exhibits in the Collections Galleries and special shows in the Special Exhibition Hall. It had 384,340 visitors in 2016. The article gives no hours.
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