Contemporary Museums of Japan: New Approaches to the Shaping of Architectural and Artistic Image

In the late twentieth – early twenty first centuries, one can observe serious changes in the museum architecture; they are connected with dominating new concepts in the museum, exhibition and landscape structure. The ideas of the social and intellectual role of museums are in the process of transformation; new strategies of the museum space are worked out. On the example of Japan, the author makes an attempt to trace main tendencies, dominating in the architecture of contemporary museums.