Otsuka Museum of Art

Otsuka Museum of Art Review

From uzu-no-michi a boardwalk rings the high coastline; walk south for 10 minutes and you'll come to the Otsuka Museum of Art, a surreal and ambitious exhibition space collecting Western art from all over the world … sort of. Over a thousand great works of art have been precisely reproduced on ceramic tiles and arranged throughout the enormous facility by era and location. More than a Greatest Hits of Art, you'll find well-known and obscure works on display. Surround yourself with a room full of Rubens altars, stand alone in the Sistine Chapel or before Picasso's Guernica, wander through replicated French churches, Greek tombs, a banquet hall from Pompeii, and countless other sights you'd thought were one-of-a-kind. Indeed, these pieces are unique, and seeing them can be confounding, as you feel moved by the power of a thousand stunning pictures of pictures. It is a unique and enlightening experience.