The Kyoto National Museum is one of the three formerly-imperially mandated art museums in Japan. The collections of the Kyoto National Museum focus on pre-modern Japanese and Asian art. An art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art, and usually primarily paintings and sculpture. ... World map showing Asia (geographically) Asia is the central and eastern part of Eurasia and worlds largest continent. ...

The Kyoto National Museum, then the Imperial Museum of Kyoto, was proposed, along with the Imperial Museum of Tokyo (Tokyo National Museum) and the Imperial Museum of Nara (Nara National Museum), in 1889, and construction on the museum finished in October, 1895. The museum went through a series of name changes, in 1900 changing its name to the Imperial Household Museum of Kyoto, and once more in 1924 to the Imperial Gift Museum of Kyoto. The current name, the Kyoto National Museum, was decided upon in 1952. The Main Exhibition Hall, Main Gate and Ticket Area have been designated Important Cultural Properties in Japan. The museum houses over 12,000 works, of which around 6,000 are on display at the museum. Furthermore, the museum also boasts photographic archives containing over 200,000 photographic negatives and color transparencies. The Tokyo National Museum. ... 1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...