Image: Morinosuke Yamamoto, “Early Summer,” 1906, oil on canvas, collection of Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum
The Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum is showing its collection exhibition, the museum’s permanent display, across five rooms this autumn, with newly acquired works, craft and design connected with Nagasaki, Spanish art from the Suma Collection, modern and contemporary Spanish painting and a set of Chagall lithographs. A post on the museum’s social-media account presented the display as the programme on view during the week of Wednesday, September 2 to Tuesday, September 8, 2026; the individual room presentations run on their own, longer schedules, listed by the museum on its exhibition pages.
Room 1 holds ‘収蔵名品展―新収蔵作品とともに’ (Masterpieces of the Collection, with New Acquisitions), from May 15 to October 18, 2026, which brings together works connected with Nagasaki and shows works acquired during the 2025 fiscal year for the first time; the museum illustrates the display with Yamamoto Morinosuke’s ‘初夏’ (Early Summer), an oil on canvas of 1906. Room 2 holds ‘長崎の工芸・デザイン―暮らしの器・道具’ (Craft and Design of Nagasaki: Vessels and Tools of Daily Life), from July 30 to October 18, 2026, which reconsiders the collection through the everyday function of craft and design objects.
Rooms 3 to 5 widen the scope beyond the region. Room 3 shows ‘須磨コレクション1’ (Suma Collection 1), from June 9 to November 8, 2026, drawn from the art assembled in Spain during the Second World War by the diplomat Suma Yakichirō (1892–1970), the collection from which the museum’s Spanish holdings grew. Room 4 shows ‘シャガールの〈サーカス〉’ (Chagall’s ‘Circus’), from July 28 to October 25, 2026, the lithograph portfolio published when Marc Chagall (1887–1985) was eighty. Room 5 shows ‘スペイン近現代美術’ (Modern and Contemporary Spanish Art), on view since July 5, 2025 with no announced closing date, with works by Picasso, Miró, Dalí, Tàpies, Arroyo and Franquelo.
The museum, which opened in April 2005 and took over part of the collection of the former Nagasaki Prefectural Museum, holds about 9,000 works including deposits, counted at the end of March 2025, and collects in three areas: art connected with Nagasaki, Spanish art starting from the Suma Collection, and other works of high quality. Its permanent-display rooms are open from 10am to 8pm, with last entry at 7.30pm.
Because each room changes on its own schedule, the September configuration described above holds only until October 18, 2026, when the first- and second-room displays close.
