Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
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| Established | 1990 |
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| Location | Meguro, Tokyo, Japan |
| Visitors | 415,000 (2008) |
| Director | Yoshiharu Fukuhara (2000–), See: Arinobu Fukuhara |
| Website | www |
Coordinates: 35°38′30″N 139°42′48″E / 35.6417°N 139.7132°E
The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (東京都写真美術館 Tōkyō-to Shashin Bijutsukan?) is an art museum concentrating on photography.
As the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, it was founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo. The museum also has a movie theater.
Until 2014, the museum nicknamed itself "Syabi" (pronounced shabi); since 2016, it has called itself "Top Museum".
The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography opened in a temporary building in 1990 and moved to its current building in Yebisu Garden Place in 1995. At that time, it was one of the first photography galleries in Japan not to be dedicated to the works of a single photographer. Most of the exhibitions since then have been themed rather than devoted to a single photographer, but exhibitions have been dedicated to such photographers of the past as Berenice Abbott (1990) and Tadahiko Hayashi (1993–94), and also to living photographers including Martin Parr (2007) and Hiromi Tsuchida (2008).
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