The Toyota Municipal Museum of Art in Toyota, Aichi, was designed by Yoshio Taniguchi. Peter Walker was the landscape designer. Toyota city paid for the whole project, which cost $122 million. The museum opened in 1995. The article gives no style, materials or dimensions.
Taniguchi supervised a renovation in 2015, for the museum's 20th anniversary. The collection focuses on art after modernism, from Japan and abroad. European works include pieces by Klimt, Schiele, Magritte, Dalí and Giacometti. Japanese works include those by Hishida, Yokoyama and Fujita.
A cubic sculpture by Sol LeWitt and a rusted, curved steel-plate sculpture by Richard Serra stand at the entrance. The museum can be reached by the Mikawa Line to Toyotashi Station. The article gives no hours or admission.
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