Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition 'No Museum, No Life?: Art-Museum Encyclopedia to Come' at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo from June to September 2015.

Launched in 2001, the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art is made up of five museums: the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; the National Museum of Western Art; the National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka; and the National Art Center, Tokyo. This exhibition is the second event held in celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the institution, drawing on the museums' collections.

'This exhibition, "No Museum, No Life?: Art-Museum Encyclopedia to Come / From the Collections of the National Museum of Art", takes the museum itself as its theme. Based on 36 keywords, arranged in alphabetical order from A to Z, and inspired by the structure and function of the museum, the exhibition presents a special selection of approximately 170 works from the wide-ranging collections of the national museums, which stretch from the pre-Christian era to the present, and from the East to the West. In addition to the works, the exhibition incorporates displays of documents related to museum activities.' - excerpted from the introduction by Mabuchi Akiko, President of the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art

Includes a list of exhibits.