Overview

Before it opened in 2022, the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office (formerly known as the Osaka City Museum of Modern Art Planning Office) regularly presented artworks that it had collected in the form of collection exhibitions.
In addition to collection exhibitions, the planning office held a range of other kinds of exhibitions with the aim of promoting the spread of art in general. While the planning office was in operation, it held over sixty exhibitions, with admissions exceeding 1.3 million. It also actively engaged in education and outreach, holding briefings related to exhibitions and other events for the purpose of familiarizing a greater number of people with contemporary and modern art.

* The Osaka City Museum of Modern Art Planning Office was the former name of the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office.

* Honorific titles of speakers etc. are omitted.
* Names marked with an asterisk indicate Osaka City Museum of Modern Art Planning Office curators.

2007

Lecture series: “Art and media—The diverse range of media in art” (PDF)

Venue	Shinsaibashi Temporary Exhibition Space for Osaka City Museum of Modern Art

• 1. “Paint from different times and places” (July 11, 2007. Speaker: Kiyohara Sachiko*)
• 2. “Is art the same as media?” (July 18, 2007. Speaker: Kumada Tsukasa*)
• 3. “Picture-card storytelling, manga, and media art” (July 25, 2007. Speaker: Sugaya Tomio*)
• 4. “Growing diversification of contemporary art and media” (August 1, 2007. Speaker: Mitsui Tomoyuki*)

Media Gym: Video media workshop—Developing capabilities that allow you to familiarize yourself with media (PDF)

Venue	Shinsaibashi Temporary Exhibition Space for Osaka City Museum of Modern Art
Organizer	Osaka City
Planning	Remo, a non-profit organization whose activities focus on three main areas, knowledge, expression, and interaction via media

– Gathering to view the film Old Ladies’ Guide to the Future (December 8-9, 2007)

– Video kukai: "Remoscope workshop" (December 15-16, 2007)

– homemade VJ: A VJ course for junior high school and high school students (December 22-23, 2007)

2006

Summer art workshop: “Creating a mysterious anime together”

Date	July 28-29, 2006
Venue	Shinsaibashi Temporary Exhibition Space for Osaka City Museum of Modern Art
Speaker	Murai Mimi (artist)

Lecture series: “The art museum and its collection—Focusing on works in the collection” (PDF)」

Venue	Shinsaibashi Temporary Exhibition Space for Osaka City Museum of Modern Art

• 1. “Introduction: The importance of art museum collections” (August 9, 2006. Speaker: Inui Yoshiaki, director of the Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo)
• 2. “The modern art of Saeki Yuzo—How was Japan’s largest collection created?” (August 23, 2006. Speaker: Takayanagi Yukiko*)
• 3. “Osaka’s female painters highlighted by the collection—From Shima Seien to Tanaka Atsuko” (August 30, 2006. Speaker: Ogawa Tomoko*)
• 4. “Works that are problematic for art museums—Contemporary art becoming more diversified” (September 6, 2006. Speaker: Kiyohara Sachiko*)

2005

Promenade concert with paintings—An encounter between masterpieces of music and painting

Date	September 2-3, 2005
Venue	Shinsaibashi Temporary Exhibition Space for Osaka City Museum of Modern Art
Performers	Osaka Shion Wind Orchestra chamber ensemble

Lecture series: “Art spots in Osaka, now and then” (PDF)

Venue	Shinsaibashi Temporary Exhibition Space for Osaka City Museum of Modern Art

• 1. “Modern Osaka—Places to view and show art” (July 29, 2005. Speaker: Hashizume Setsuya*)
• 2. “Places where artists gather—From painting schools to Gutai Pinacotheca” (August 5, 2005. Speaker: Kumada Tsukasa*)
• 3. “Places where urban art is created—Commercial design and Osaka Commercial Museum” (August 19, 2005. Speaker: Sugaya Tomio*)
• 4. “Art spots alive today (With a stroll in the cool of the evening)” (August 27, 2005. Speaker: Mitsui Tomoyuki*)