Ōtsuka Museum of Art

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Ōtsuka Museum of Art

大塚国際美術館 Ōtsuka Kokusai Bijutsukan
The museum in 2014
Established	1998 (1998)
Location	Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
Type	Art museum
Collections	Full-size ceramic reproductions of noted artworks
Collection size	>1,000
Website	o-museum.or.jp

The Ōtsuka Museum of Art (大塚国際美術館, Ōtsuka Kokusai Bijutsukan) in Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture is an art museum founded in 1998 and is one of the largest exhibition spaces in Japan.^[1]

Established by Otsuka Pharmaceutical as a celebration of its 75th anniversary,^[2] it houses over a thousand full-size ceramic reproductions of major works of art, including the Sistine Chapel, Scrovegni Chapel, triclinium of the Villa of the Mysteries, and Guernica.^[3][4] The works are transfer-printed from photographs before being fired and retouched.^[5][6] The purpose of this is to give Japanese people who cannot travel abroad the opportunity to see these famous pieces.^[7] A robot named 'Mr Art' gives hour-long gallery talks.^[8] The museum cost industrialist Masahito Ōtsuka $400,000,000.^[9]

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  Otsuka Museum of Art, Tokushima
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  Otsuka Museum of Art, Tokushima
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  Reproduction of Sistine Chapel

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