The Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (京都市美術館, Kyōto-shi Bijutsukan?) is one of many Japanese museums supported by a city. It is an art museum in Okazaki Park in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto which opened in 1933. It was conceived in 1928 as a commemoration of the Showa emperor's coronation ceremony, and it was initially called the Showa Imperial Coronation Art Museum of Kyoto.
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