The was one of the oldest

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museums in Japan. The museum was in the Kita-Shinagawa district, in the Shinagawa area of

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. The building was originally built as a private mansion designed by Jin Watanabe in 1938 for the grandfather of current museum president and international collector Toshio Hara. Designed in a

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style, it is a rare example of early

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architecture . Following the war, it was used by the US and then served as the Embassy of the Philippines and the Embassy of Sri Lanka. In 1979, it was converted to a museum. It underwent a major renovation in 2008, including a new lighting system designed by Shozo Toyohisa. In November 2018, the Foundation Arc-en-Ciel announced that it would be closing the Shinagawa museum in 2020, leaving the Hara Museum ARC in

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as the foundation's only museum. The Shinagawa museum was actually closed on January 11, 2021. Its permanent collection had included works by Karel Appel, Alexander Calder,

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, Yves Klein,

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, Surasi Kusolwong, Aiko Miyawaki,

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, Daisuke Nakayama, Maruyama Ōkyo,

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, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, George Rickey, Mark Rothko, Cindy Sherman,

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, Jason Teraoka, Zhou Tiehai, Lee U-Fan,

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, and Miwa Yanagi. Its street address was: 4-7-25 Kita-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0001, Japan.

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* {{authority control Shinagawa Contemporary art galleries in Japan Art museums and galleries in Tokyo Museums in Gunma Prefecture Art museums and galleries in Japan Defunct museums in Japan Art museums established in 1979 1979 establishments in Japan Museums disestablished in 2021 2021 establishments in Japan