A first for an art museum! "T-TICKET" turns your T-CARD into a ticket. Matsuoka Museum of Art to introduce T-TICKET

2016.04.01 Press Releases
Matsuoka Museum of Art / Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd. / Bijutsu Shuppansha Co., Ltd.

-T-TICKET exclusive original tote bag set tickets on sale-

The Matsuoka Museum of Art (Minato-ku, Tokyo; Director: Osamu Matsuoka; hereinafter referred to as "Matsuoka Museum of Art"), which houses art works from all over the world, past and present, and Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd. (Head office: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Muneaki Masuda; hereinafter referred to as "CCC"), have decided to collaborate with Bijutsu Shuppansha Co., Ltd. (Head office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Kazuo Nakanishi; hereinafter referred to as "Bijutsu Shuppansha"), a CCC group company, to provide the Matsuoka Museum of Art with "T-TICKET," which allows visitors to use their T-CARD as a ticket for admission. This is the first time that the "T-TICKET" has been introduced at a museum. In conjunction with this, we will begin selling TICKETs for a Matsuoka Museum of Art original tote bag set exclusively for T-TICKET from Friday, April 1, 2016.

The Matsuoka Museum of Art is a private art museum located in Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Since its founding, the museum has consistently exhibited only works collected by its founder, Seijiro Matsuoka, in both its permanent and special exhibitions. This is based on the founder, Seijiro Matsuoka's policy that "a private art museum should be a place that expresses the founder's personal aesthetic sense and discerning eye for beauty."The museum's collection is more diverse than that of other private art museums, and includes such areas as "Oriental Ceramics," "Modern and Contemporary Japanese Paintings," "Chinese Calligraphy and Paintings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties," "Modern French Paintings," "Victorian Paintings," "Ancient Oriental Sculptures such as Gandhara Buddha Statues and Hindu God Statues," "Contemporary Sculpture," and "Ancient Oriental Art." The museum holds exhibitions several times a year, with themes selected from its collection of over 1,800 pieces to fit each theme.

If you have a T-CARD, you can log in to the Matsuoka Museum of Art T-TICKET purchasing site from your computer or smartphone using your Yahoo! JAPAN ID to which your T-CARD number is registered, and then reserve and pay for the ticket type you want online. When you arrive at the venue, please present the T-CARD you registered when purchasing your ticket, and your T-CARD will be recognized as your ticket and ID, allowing you to enter the venue. In addition, customers who purchase and enter using a "T-TICKET" will receive 5 T-POINTs, and regardless of whether they purchased a "T-TICKET," visitors to the museum who present their T-CARD will receive 5 T-POINTs.

CCC undertook this initiative with the aim of creating customer value by making "life with art" feel more familiar to people. We will continue to offer suggestions for enriching your life through art.

Bijutsu Shuppansha became a CCC Group company on August 1, 2015, and has adopted the statement, "From an art publisher to a company driven by art," as it aims to become a development proposal-based company that meets the diversifying needs of art museums, galleries, and cultural enterprises, while leveraging its existing publishing, editing, and production businesses and collaborating with the resources of the CCC Group.

[Exhibition title]
・Matsuoka Collection: Chinese Ceramics from the Song to the Yuan Dynasties (Exhibition Room 4)
- Exhibition of modern European paintings by seven artists from the museum's collection: Chagall, Vlaminck, Kisling... (Exhibition Rooms 5 and 6)
[Event period] Tuesday, April 26th to Saturday, September 24th, 2016
[Opening hours] 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (last entry at 4:30 PM)　　　　　　
[Venue] Matsuoka Museum of Art (5-12-6 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo)
[T-TICKET advance ticket sales start date] April 1st (Fri) 10:00~

[Ticket prices]
・T-TICKET Limited Tote Bag (Large) Set ticket (General Admission Only) 2,900 yen (tax included)
・T-TICKET Limited Tote Bag (Small) Set ticket (General Admission Only) 2,700 yen (tax included)
The original tote bag is an original collaboration bag with Rootote, featuring the design of Diego Giacometti's "The Cat Waiter," which is housed in the Matsuoka Museum of Art.

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A first for an art museum! "T-TICKET" turns your T-CARD into a ticket. Matsuoka Museum of Art to introduce T-TICKET

Inquiries regarding this matter
■T-TICKET inquiries:
Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd.
Public Relations Officer: Ando / TEL: 03-6800-4464

■Inquiries regarding the exhibition:
Matsuoka Museum of Art
Person in charge: Kurokawa / TEL: 03-5449-0251