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National Museum of Western Art OPAC
This is the online public access catalog (OPAC) of the National Museum of Western Art (NMWA). Users can search the catalog for books and serial publications. In addition, the table of contents of the Journal of the National Museum of Western Art and the Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art as well as feature articles of some fine art journals (related to western art) are also searchable.
The materials can be accessed at the NMWA Research Library. Please note that some materials may not be available due to preparations for exhibitions or other circumstances.
NMWA Research Library Catalogue
The Art Libraries Consortium (ALC) Cross-Search
The ALC Cross-search allows searching across the catalogues of museums in Japan that are members of The Art Libraries Consortium (ALC). The library collections of the following museums are cross-searchable: The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama; National Crafts Museum; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; The National Art Center, Tokyo; The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Tokyo National Museum; Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Tokyo Photographic Art Museum; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; Yokohama Museum of Art; Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation.
The Art Discovery Group Catalogue
The Art Discovery Group Catalogue is an open-access discovery tool developed by an international network of art libraries. In addition to the collections of the NMWA Research Library and other participating art libraries, users can search across e-journals, journal article databases, and institutional repositories powered by WorldCat search engine, which is a vast database supported by the nonprofit global library organization OCLC.