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.

2020

Opening talk “Urban memory: About architectural archives” at the Creative Island Lab Nakanoshima exhibition project “Urban reconsideration seen in builders’ construction records”

Date	January 24, 2020
Venue	Art Area B1
Organizers	Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office, Art Area B1
Co-organizer	Nakanoshima Future City Planning Council
Speakers	Takaoka Shinichi, Saito Ayumu, Akiyama Takuya, Satow Morihiro, Matsukuma Akira
Moderators	Kinoshita Chieko, Minamitani Masakazu, Ueki Keiko*

Lab Café Special featuring Creative Island Lab Nakanoshima: “Local communities x enterprises—About design archives”

Date	15:00-17:00 on Saturday, September 12, 2020 (online)
Speakers	Kawahara Yoko, Seki Koichiro, Yajima Shinji, Kinoshita Chieko, Ueki Keiko*
Organizers	Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office, Art Area B1, Panasonic Museum, Industrial Design Archives Conference
Co-organizer	Creative Island Nakanoshima Executive Committee
Sponsor	The UNION Foundation for Ergodesign Culture

Try the open source forum 2020 ArchivesSpace

Date	13:00-16:30 on Wednesday, September 16, 2020 (online)
Speaker	Imura Kunihiro
Observer	Matsuyama Hitomi*
Organizers	Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office, Meta Info Inc.
Sponsor	Japan Foundation for Regional Art-Activities

Pre-opening event: Write a Love Letter to the Collection!

Entries accepted	Monday, October 12, 2020-Monday, March 1, 2021 (Late entries not accepted)

Pre-opening event: Call for people to send in long-forgotten home videos

Entries accepted	Monday, October 12, 2020-Wednesday, March 31, 2021