National Museum of Western Art

National Museum of Western Art

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Its logo and National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo designed by Le Corbusier
Official name	Musée National des Beaux-Arts de l’Occident
Location	7-7 Ueno Imperial Grant Park, Taitō, Tokyo, Japan
Part of	The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement
Criteria	Cultural: (i), (ii), (vi)
Reference	1321rev-016
Inscription	2016 (40th Session)
Area	0.93 ha (0.0036 sq mi)
Buffer zone	116.17 ha (0.4485 sq mi)
Website	www.nmwa.go.jp/en/

The National Museum of Western Art (国立西洋美術館, Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan, lit. "National Western Art Museum", NMWA) is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition.

The museum is in the Ueno Park in Taitō, central Tokyo. It received 1,162,345 visitors in 2016.^[1]