Opened to the public in January 2007, this Kisho Kurokawa-designed national museum has a total of 14,000 square metres of exhibition space, most of which will be used by Japan's hundreds of private artist associations for their annual members-only exhibitions. Blockbuster shows will also be organised in collaboration with newspaper companies. The opening exhibition was an exhibition of work from the Pompidou Centre made in tandem with the Asahi Shimbun. Featuring over 500 works, and sprawling over 6,000 square metres, it presented an overview of art from the 20th century looking in particular at how the age of mass production, and the consequent surfeit of ‘objects’ has influenced artistic creation.