Musée National des Beaux-Arts de l’Occident (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo)

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The Musée National des Beaux-Arts de l’Occident (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo) is a prominent Tokyo art museum renowned for its collection of Western art and its modernist building designed by the influential architect Le Corbusier.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	art museum → cultural institution → museum →
architect	Le Corbusier →
architecturalStyle	International Style → Modernist architecture →
category	Art museums and galleries in Tokyo → Le Corbusier buildings → Modernist architecture in Japan → Museums established in 1959 →
collectionFocus	European painting → European sculpture → Western art →
collectionOrigin	Matsukata Collection →
continent	Asia →
coordinates	35.716°N 139.776°E →
country	Japan →
founder	Matsukata Kojiro collection basis →
governingBody	National Museum of Art, Independent Administrative Institution (Japan) →
hasCollection	works by Auguste Rodin → works by Claude Monet → works by Edgar Degas → works by Pablo Picasso → works by Paul Cézanne → works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir → works by Vincent van Gogh →
hasPart	main building designed by Le Corbusier → new wing → prints and drawings gallery →
inception	1959 →
locatedIn	Tokyo → Ueno Park →
locatedInAdministrativeEntity	Taitō, Tokyo →
nativeName	国立西洋美術館 →
nativeNameLanguage	ja →
notableFor	collection of Western art in Japan → museum building designed by Le Corbusier →
officialName	National Museum of Western Art →
openedToPublic	1959 →
owner	Government of Japan →
primaryLanguageOfSignage	English → Japanese →
subjectOf	UNESCO World Heritage documentation →
touristAttraction	Tokyo NERFINISHED →
UNESCOWorldHeritageDesignationYear	2016 →
UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteComponentOf	The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement →	hasPart