"Campus Members" -- Museums and Art Museums

Osaka University continually strives to provide opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to experience and be exposed to primary sources of culture, art, science, and history.

As a signatory to group contracts referred to as "Campus Members," Osaka University now provides students, faculty, and staff with what, in some ways, resembles extensions of its campuses. That is, by showing your student or faculty/staff ID card, students, faculty, and staff are able to gain admission at no charge* to all the museums and other facilities noted below. Moreover, you can return again and again!

The Kansai is particularly rich with a wide variety of museums and gardens. Therefore, students in particular, please make use of these opportunities to expose yourself to valuable primary sources of culture, art, science, and history!

As of April 2012, "Campus Members" includes the following:

Art Museums

Museums

Science Museums, Gardens
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Osaka Municipal Museum of Art
The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka
The Japan Folk Crafts Museum, Suita		 National Museum of Ethnology, Suita
Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto
Nara National Museum, Nara
Osaka Museum of History, Osaka
Osaka Castle Museum, Osaka		 Osaka Museum of Natural History, Osaka
Osaka Science Museum, Osaka
The Natural and Cultural Gardens in The Expo Memorial Park, Suita
Japanese Gardens in The Expo Memorial Park, Suita

* Notes:

  1. "No charge" applies to museums' regular exhibitions only; admission for special exhibitions as well as joint exhibitions is only discounted -- it is not free. Please check the respective home pages for additional information regarding special and joint exhititions.

  2. At Kyoto National Museum and Nara National Museum, admission at no charge (for regular exhibitions) is granted only to OU students, not OU faculty and staff.