Museum

The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0022, Japan; phone +81 3 5245 4111, www.mot-art-museum.jp/eng) reopened in March 2019 after almost three years of renovations.

Its collection includes about 5,400 objects of modern art from Japan and overseas along with three floors of galleries for temporary exhibits. Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Tues.-Sun. Closed Mondays. Entry, ¥500 (near $4.50), main galleries or, including special exhibits, ¥1,300.

On the shore of Salhusfjord en, near Bergen, a former textile mill (1859-1989) now houses the Norwegian Knitting Industry Museum (Salhusvegen 201, 5107 Salhus, Norway; phone +47 55 25 10 80, www.muho.no/en/the-norwegian-knitting-industry-museum).

A visit begins with a film about the factory, including interviews with former workers. On a guided tour, visitors see antique knitting machines producing scarves and socks to be sold in the gift shop.

Designed to resemble a sprawling desert rose, the National Museum of Qatar (Museum Park Street; www.nmoq.org.qa) opened on March 28.

Along 1.5 kilometers of corridors, visitors explore the natural and anthropological history of the Qatar peninsula. Also on the grounds is the restored palace of Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim al-Thani, the son of the founder of modern Qatar.

Open 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sat.-Wed., 10-9 Thurs. and 1:30-7 Fri. QAR50 (near $14).

On Odaiba island in Tokyo Bay, Tokyo, the Mori Building Digital Art Museum (Odaiba Palette Town, 1-3-8 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan; phone +61 03 6406 3949, borderless.teamlab.art) opened in June 2018. Using more than 500 computers and 400 projectors, the museum’s 10,000-square-meter space is turned into one giant exhibit, where the projected art mingles and interacts along the floors, walls and ceilings and with guests.

Open 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Mon.-Thurs. & Sun. and 10-9 Fri.-Sat. (Closed second and fourth Tues.) ¥3,200 (near $28).

The Münzkabinett in Berlin, Germany, has one of the largest numismatic collections (coins and tokens) in the world, and among its more than 540,000 objects are medals, paper currencies and medieval seals. The Münzkabinett, itself, can be visited only for scholarly work; however, thousands of its items are put on display in museums on Berlin’s Museumsinsel (Museum Island).

The Vatican is considering measures to reduce the number of visitors to the Vatican Museums, due to overcrowding and health issues.

More than 6 million people visit the museums each year, with up to 30,000 per day during the high season (March-October), when, according to guides, as many as 10 visitors faint each day in the non-air-conditioned corridors, occasionally suffering additional injuries.

In Dakar, Senegal, the Museum of Black Civilization, or Musée des Civilisations noires (Autoroute prolongée x Place de la gare, Dakar; phone +221 33 959 19 21, www.mcn.sn [in French only]), opened in December. It displays art from across Africa as well as from the African diaspora in the New World, with works in its opening exhibits from Mali, Burkina Faso, Cuba and Haiti.