Museums, Museums, and More Museums

In order, here are the museums we visited today:

1. The Museum of Western Art by Le Corbusier

2. The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures by Yoshio Taniguchi

3. The International Library of Children's Literature by Tadao Ando (an old building they added on to, but you can see from this image that the upper floors of the addition allow you to touch the exterior facade of the old building. Very cool.)

4. The GA Gallery (Global Architecture magazine's gallery space where they show project models/boards featured in the magazine)

The first three were part of a large museum complex in the Ueno area of Tokyo and were nestled in the city's oldest park. They are all very famous architecturally, and so, I wasn't really looking at the contents too closely. I did see a great Monet today, though. The GA Gallery was my personal dream because it also had an amazing library of architecture books on contemporary architects, and the models on display were so, so, so cool. One was made of bubble wrap. It was in the Harajuku district which is rapidly becoming one of my favorite places on earth because of its concentration of beautiful architecture and fashion (Omotesando is part of Harajuku).