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.

2018

FY2017 “The Art Museum Meets the Library: Exciting Collaborations”: Artist picture books (PDF)

Date	March 10, 2018
Venue	Osaka Municipal Tsurumi Library
Speakers	Tano Akiko, Kunii Aya*
Organizers	Osaka Municipal Tsurumi Library, Osaka City Museum of Modern Art Planning Office

Industrial Design Archive Project Symposium: “The age of interior design—industry and art relating to lifestyle”

Date	March 2, 2018
Venue	Josho Hall, OIT Umeda Tower, Umeda Campus, Osaka Institute of Technology
Guest speakers	Matsumura Shuichi, Kawatoko Yu
Opening presentation	Endo Katsuhiko

FY2018 “The Art Museum Meets the Library: Exciting Collaborations”: “Listening to art—Saeki Yuzo enjoyed through readings” (PDF)

・Part 1: July 29, 2018

Venue	Osaka Municipal Yodogawa Library
Speakers	Rodoku Mangekyo members, Takayanagi Yukiko*
Organizers	Osaka Municipal Yodogawa Library, Osaka City Museum of Modern Art Planning Office

・Part 2: September 23, 2018

Venue	Osaka Municipal Higashinari Library
Speakers	Group Hana members, Takayanagi Yukiko*
Organizers	Osaka Municipal Higashinari Library, Osaka City Museum of Modern Art Planning Office

・Part 3: December 16, 2018

Venue	Osaka Municipal Nishiyodogawa Library
Speakers	Rodoku Mangekyo members, Takayanagi Yukiko*
Organizers	Osaka Municipal Higashinari Library, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office

Talk event: “Art materials archives today—Suggestions for learning about artists”

Date	December 9, 2018
Venue	Amagasaki Cultural Center
Speakers	Seno Aya, Matsuyama Hitomi*, Ishihara Tomoaki, Saito Ayumu
MC	Sugaya Tomio*
Organizers	Amagasaki Cultural Foundation, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office, Mainichi Shimbun