Enjoying Our Collection
We offer a variety of ways to enjoy the Yokohama Museum of Art’s collection. Works are displayed in the exhibition galleries and the Jiyu (Free) Area. Easy-to-understand commentaries, videos, walking courses in Yokohama—all sorts of new experiences await you.
Explore the Exhibitions
Each Yokohama Museum of Art Collection Exhibition introduces works from our collection, centered around specific themes. Please take your time to thoroughly enjoy familiar works as well as those you encounter for the first time.
Enjoy for Free
The Grand Gallery, our vast entrance hall, is the center of our Jiyu (Free) Area, where we display a variety of collections. No admission fee is required to view the works displayed in our Grand Gallery, the Corridor in front of the third-floor galleries, the Foyer, Gallery 9, and outdoors.
Curators’ Commentaries
You will find our curators’ commentaries on the Collection Search, our online collection database. They are simple and clear—you don’t have to be an art major to enjoy them!
Collection Search | Works with commentary available 
Our Videos
The Yokohama Museum of Art YouTube channel offers a wealth of videos about the collection.
This series allows you to closely examine works from the Yokohama Museum of Art collection without commentaries or narrations. These YouTube videos capture the works’ details in close up and from various angles. They may lead you to make discoveries that you might miss when viewing the same work at the museum.
How did they do it? Explore the technique
This series introduces techniques used to create works in the Yokohama Museum of Art collection. In each video, an educator demonstrates the technique.
Enjoy a Stroll
The area around the Yokohama Museum of Art includes many places depicted in works in the collection. We’ve organized three walking courses to explore them. Wouldn’t you like to visit scenes that artists painted while you stroll through the streets of Yokohama?
Art-Inspired Merchandise
The museum shop stocks postcards and original merchandise related to the collection. Here’s your chance to enjoy the works you love, right by your side.