The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art

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Designed by architect Mario Botta in 1990, the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art (ワタリウム美術館, Watari-um Bijutsukan^?) of Tokyo stands together with the Mori Arts Center and the Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Art as one of the major institutions in Japan and in Asia in the field of contemporary visual arts. Large retrospectives of Joseph Beuys, Larry Clark, Henry Darger, Jean Fabre, Federico Herrero, Mike Kelly, Barry Mc Gee, Nam June Paik, Gerda Steiner& Jorg Lenzlinger, were held at the museum during the past years. Together with the exhibitions, the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art organized lectures, workshops for children and project rooms, showing equal interest in and attention to both enstabilished and emerging artists.

The museum is in Shibuya, Tokyo near Gaienmae Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line.