History

Ishibashi Shojiro (1889-1976), founder of Bridgestone Corporation, completes a gallery to house his collection on the 2nd floor of the Bridgestone Building in Kyobashi, Tokyo, which he opens to the public. The Bridgestone Museum of Art thus opens its doors on January 8. The Saturday Lectures start in February the same year.

The Ishibashi Foundation is established and the Bridgestone Museum of Art comes under its management.
Ishibashi Shojiro opens the Ishibashi Museum of Art, sister museum to the Bridgestone Museum of Art, in Kurume city, Fukuoka prefecture the same year.

Contemporary World Art is held.

The Museum is totally redesigned, resulting in an 80 percent increase in floor area to 2,645 square meters.

Shojiro Ishibashi donates most of his art collection to the Ishibashi Foundation.

The Ishibashi Collection Exhibition is held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Paris.

Aoki Shigeru, the Museum's twentieth anniversary exhibition is held.

Ishibashi Shojiro, Founder of the Bridgestone Museum of Art, passed away.

The Museum acquires Picasso's Saltimbanque Seated with Arms Crossed.

The Museum acquires Renoir's Mlle Georgette Charpentier Seated.

Gustave Courbet is held.

Monet: A Retrospective is held.

Cumulative visitors exceed 5 million.

The interior of the museum is redesigned and redecorated, extending the display area to 2,924 square meters.

Renoir: From Outsider to Old Master 1870-1892 is held.

Ishibashi Shojiro, Art Collector and Bridgestone Museum of Art Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration Fujishima Takeji are held.

Over 2,000 Saturday Lectures had been given.

The museum acquires Number 2, 1951.

From SESSHU to POLLOCK: An Exhibition Marking the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Ishibashi Foundation and Sakamoto Hanjiro: An Exhibition Marking the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Ishibashi Museum of art are held.

The museum acquires Caillebotte's Young Man Playing the Piano.
Postwar Abstract Paintings in France and Art Informel and Aoki Shigeru: Myth, Sea and Love are held.

Ishibashi Foundation is accredited as a Public Interest Incorporated Foundation.
The museum's sixtieth anniversary exhibitions are held: Ishibashi Collection Selected for the Exhibition in Paris, Spring, 1962; The Bridgestone Museum of Art at Sixty: You've Got to See These Paintings; and Debussy, Music and the Arts.

Gustave Caillebotte exhibition is held.

The Bridgestone Museum of Art closes for renovation on May 18, 2015 to reopen several years later.
Museum to reopen under new name.

The administration of the Ishibashi Museum of Art is handed over to the City of Kurume and it is renamed as the Kurume City Art Museum.

“Tokyo — Paris Masterpieces from the Bridgestone Museum of Art in Tokyo — Ishibashi Foundation Collection Exhibition” is held at the Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris. Approx. 420,000 visitors.

Name change of the Bridgestone Museum of Art (to the Artizon Museum) in July 2019 and its opening in January 2020 are announced.

Completion of Construction of "Museum Tower Kyobashi" on July 1.