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.

2011

Exhibition: Osaka City Museum of Modern Art—Past developments and plans for the museum’s establishment

Dates	February 2-10, 2011
Venue	Osaka City Hall front entrance lobby
Event details	Exhibition of posters and flyers of shows held and panels of plan to establish a museum of modern art, special exhibits from the collection (sculpture), etc.

2010

Lecture and high school student design workshop by Ralph Schraivogel

・Lecture open to the general public: “Swiss graphic revolution”

Date	August 9, 2010
Venue	Shinsaibashi Temporary Exhibition Space for Osaka City Museum of Modern Art
Speaker	Ralph Schraivogel (graphic designer)

・High school design workshop: “How to find design ideas”

Date	August 9 and 10, 2010
Venue	Osaka City Kogei High School
Speaker	Ralph Schraivogel (graphic designer)

2009

Special exhibit: Ikeda Yoson’s Yuki no Osaka (Osaka in the Snow) (the Osaka City Museum of Modern Art Planning Office collection)

Dates	December 12-25, 2009
Venue	First floor lobby of the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka

Lecture series: “Art history surprises—Reversals, discoveries, and major events” (PDF)

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

• 1. “Major reversals—Masterpieces and great artists that were severely criticized at exhibitions” (January 21, 2009. Speaker: Takayanagi Yukiko*)
• 2. “Are nudes art?—From the Morning Toilette controversy and the Loincloth Incident to Modigliani’s solo exhibition” (January 28, 2009. Speaker: Ogawa Tomoko*)
• 3. “The One-Thousand-Yen Note Trial—Money as art object / paper currency as a print” (February 4, 2009. Speaker: Kiyohara Sachiko*)
• 4. “Discoveries, findings, and reassessments—Discovered beauties and forgotten masterpieces” (February 18, 2009. Speaker: Sugaya Tomio*)
• Extra. “Free jazz revelation! The essence of free jazz in popular music” (March 4, 2009)

Speaker/Performer	Yoshio Ootani (saxophone)
Performers	Sabu Toyozumi (drums), Katsuyoshi Kou (guitar)