Well that was a wasted trip. It was closed today. Day following a public holiday. It's on the 8th floor of the building next to the bank. Not well signed at ground floor business listing board. You have to find the name in Japanese.

Visited on a weekend afternoon. I stopped by on the way from the Meguro Museum of Art. I was the only visitor at the time. I paid the 500 yen admission in cash. It's one floor, one room, an amount you can get through quickly. There are no lockers, but since it's a small museum, they told me to leave my things on the sofa while viewing. One staff member was there while I was looking around. On the way out, they encourage you to fill out a survey.

It's located a short distance from Meguro Station, and apparently it opened in October 1982 to commemorate historian Kume Kunitake and his eldest son, Western-style painter Kume Keiichiro. It's on the 8th floor, and the exhibition hall was smaller than I expected. I visited because they were holding a collection exhibition, and you can see works by Kume Keiichiro and his teacher, Raphaël Collin. It was a bit of a shame that you're not allowed to take photos.

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A small art museum in front of Meguro Station. This museum displays manuscripts by historian Kume Kunitake, who took part in the Iwakura Mission and left behind "Bei-Ō Kairan Jikki," as well as works by his son, painter Kume Keiichiro. When I visited, there were just under 30 paintings, plus Kunitake's manuscripts and writings. The paintings were Keiichiro's own, along with a few by his teacher Raphaël Collin and his friend Kuroda Seiki. As you can tell from the number of works, it's a small-scale museum. It might be good to visit as one stop on a tour of cultural facilities around Meguro, or when you have a little free time in Meguro.

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Works by former students were displayed in one room. They were Showa-era works, and there weren't any particularly striking landscape paintings. The figure paintings were decent. The walls were dirty, and there was a window for monitoring the inside.