Fodor's Expert Review Otsuka Museum of Art

Tokushima Art Museum

About 1 km (½ mile) before buses from Naruto and Tokushima reach Naruto Park, they stop at this impressive and bewildering ceramic art museum. Its founders commissioned more than 1,000 faithful reproductions of Western-art masterpieces on ceramic panels, the concept being that while Picasso's painting Guernica or Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling may fade with time, ceramic reproductions of them will live on forever. Exhibits are arranged by era, from antiquity to modern times, and it's all there, from a Pompeian banquet scene to Rembrandt's self-portraits to Warhol's Marilyn x 100. Cumulatively, the artworks are a bit overwhelming, though certainly not forgettable. You won't forget the price either. The lofty admission price isn't for someone with a mere passing interest in art.

Art Museum

Quick Facts

65--1 Fukuike
Naruto-cho, Tokushima-ken  772-0053, Japan

088-687–3737

o-museum.or.jp

Sight Details:
Rate Includes: ¥3,300, Closed Mon.

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