アーティゾン美術館のコンセプトは「創造の体感」。美術品の鑑賞だけではなく、創造を体感し、創造を支える場を提供していきます。今まで65年以上にわたって培ってきた伝統を引き継ぎながら、古美術、日本近代洋画、印象派、20世紀美術、そして現代美術まで視野を広げ、時代を切り拓くような美術館活動を目指します。
The Bridgestone Museum of Art became the “ARTIZON MUSEUM”. It will be a place dedicated not only to the appreciation of art works, but will also keep providing a venue for the experience and support of creativity from past, present and in future. The Artizon museum aims to continue its traditions that have continued for over 65 years, while expanding its scope to include antique art works, modern Japanese Western-style paintings, the Impressionists, 20th century art, and contemporary art, aiming to carry out museum activities to create a future for art .
■History
The Bridgestone Museum of Art was in 1952, that Ishibashi Shojiro, founder of the Bridgestone Corporation first opened an art museum in the newly built Bridgestone Building in order to exhibit his private collection. In 1956, the Ishibashi Foundation was established, and in 1961, almost all the works in the Ishibashi collection were donated to the Foundation, forming the nucleus of the present permanent collection. The Bridgestone Museum of Art devoted itself to the collection and the exhibition of works from Impressionism and other modern art to 20th century art, as well as Japanese Western-style paintings from the Meiji and following eras.
