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.

2016

FY2015 “The Art Museum Meets the Library: Exciting Collaborations”: Sumiyoshi À La Carte (PDF)

・Workshop:”Children and adults paint each other’s portraits”

Date	January 30, 2016
Venue	Osaka City Sumiyoshi Community Center
Speaker	Imai Norio

・Sumiyoshi À La Carte: “Takigawa Masahiro Duo” jazz concert

Date	January 31, 2016
Venue	Sumiyoshi Ward Office, Osaka City
Performers	Takigawa Masahiro, Fujii Miho
Organizer	Sumiyoshi Ward Office, Osaka City
Cooperation	Osaka Municipal Sumiyoshi Library, Osaka City Museum of Modern Art Planning Office

・Imai Norio talk show: “Nurturing an artistic sense”

Date	January 31, 2016
Venue	Sumiyoshi Ward Office, Osaka City
Speaker	Imai Norio

FY2015 “The Art Museum Meets the Library: Exciting Collaborations”: Abeno Studies Seminar: “The world of Suga Tatehiko—A great Nihonga artist with ties to Abeno”

Date	March 6, 2016
Venue	Osaka Municipal Abeno Library
Speaker	Ogawa Tomoko*

Postwar Art – Archives – Museums Symposium

Date	March 20, 2016
Venue	National Art Center, Tokyo
Speakers	Suzuki Katsuo, Takayanagi Yukiko*, Taniguchi Eri, Hirai Shoichi, Kawasaki Koichi, Hirano Itaru

Video screening of materials related to the Gutai Art Association in the Osaka City Museum of Modern Art Planning Office collection

Date	March 26 – 27, 2016
Venue	Osaka Prefectural Enokojima Art, Culture and Creative Center

Talk event: Reading photographic documentation—materials related to the Gutai Art Association

Date	October 7, 2016
Venue	Osaka Municipal Lifelong Learning Center
Speakers	Takayanagi Yukiko*, Yokoyama Ikuko, Seno Aya, Kato Mizuho

FY2016 “The Art Museum Meets the Library: Exciting Collaborations”: “Kasugade’s Haunted Chimney and Trick Art” lecture (PDF)

Date	December 4, 2016
Venue	Konohana Community Hall
Speakers	Sasaki Hiroshi, Mitsui Tomoyuki*
Organizers	Osaka Municipal Konohana Library, Osaka City Museum of Modern Art Planning Office

FY2016 “The Art Museum Meets the Library: Exciting Collaborations”: “Art (technique) and art (fine art): Maruki-go Bakery and Osaka art” (PDF)

Date	December 17, 2016
Venue	Osaka Municipal Central Library
Speakers	Mittomo Yunosuke, Ogawa Tomoko*
Organizers	Osaka Municipal Central Library, Osaka City Museum of Modern Art Planning Office