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.

2019

FY2018 “The Art Museum Meets the Library: Exciting Collaborations”: “Painters and novelists—The story of their unknown interactions” (PDF)

Date	February 2, 2019
Venue	Osaka Municipal Central Library
Speakers	Takayanagi Yukiko*
Organizers	Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office, Osaka Municipal Central Library

Project meeting: “The memories and future of Nakanoshima—Urban spaces described in the archives”

Date	March 2, 2019
Venue	Art Area B1
Speakers	Kana Koichi, Endo Katsuhiko, Ueki Keiko*
Moderator	Kinoshita Chieko
Organizers	Art Area B1 steering committee (Osaka University, NPO Dance Box, Keihan Holdings), Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office

“Museum Archive Workshop” (Part 1)

Date	March 8, 2019
Venue	Kobe Planet Film Archive
Speakers	Tochigi Akira, Yasui Yoshio, Nohara Akane, Matsuyama Hitomi*, and others
Organizers	Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office, Kobe Film Preservation Network (Agency for Cultural Affairs FY2018 Project to Support Art Museums and History Museums in Priority Areas)

Industrial Design Archive Project Symposium: “Creativity that can give birth to an era”

Date	March 8, 2019
Venue	Josho Hall, OIT Umeda Tower, Umeda Campus, Osaka Institute of Technology
Speakers	Idei Nobuyuki (guest speaker), Miyagishi Yukimasa, Sugaya Tomio*
Organizers	Osaka Institute of Technology, Industrial Design Archives Conference, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office

Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka pre-opening event 2019: “Newly acquired work: Sakura by Sarah Morris” (PDF)

Date	September 21-October 6, 2019
Venue	Art Area B1
Organizer	Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office
Co-organizer	Art Area B1
Related event	Curator talk (September 21)

Special lecture in celebration of the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage & video screening of “Come to Life! Rediscovering Osaka through the Moving Image”

Date	October 26-27, 2019
Venue	Osaka Museum of History
Organizers	Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office, Osaka Museum of History, Museum Revitalization Executive Committee
Speakers	Ogura Tetsuya, Tanaka Shimpei, Tawara Kazuma, Torikai Ryo, Funakoshi Mikio, Makiya Tsutomu, Matsumoto Akinobu, Matsuyama Hitomi*

Tour of the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka construction site (Open House Osaka program)

Date	October 27, 2019

“Creating and communicating design—Life/creation/products”

Date	November 25, 2019
Venue	First floor foyer, Umeda Campus, Osaka Institute of Technology
Organizers	Osaka Institute of Technology, Industrial Design Archives Conference, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office, Panasonic Museum
Speakers	Tatsumi Masakazu (special presentation), Kawahara Yoko, and others