[1] Founded in 1986, the 9.240 m2 (99,4585 ft2) museum is located in the vicinity of the University of Shizuoka's (静岡県立大学) Kusanagi campus, on a verdant hill on the northern side of the picturesque Nihondaira Plateau in the southern part of the city.

Monumental work by American artists George Rickey, James Rosati and Tony Smith is complemented by work from Japanese sculptors such as Makio Yamaguchi (山口牧生), Tadayoshi Sato (佐藤忠良), Kiyosumi Onishi (大西清澄), Kubei Shimizu (清水九兵衛), Takashi Sugimura (杉村孝), Goro Kakei (掛井五郎), Hisao Suzuki (鈴木久雄), Yoshitatsu Yanagihara (柳原義達) and Yasutake Funakoshi (舟越保武).

XVIIth-C. and XVIIIth-C landscape paintings by Hubert Robert, Claude Lorrain, Gaspard Dughet, Claude-Joseph Vernet and Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld constitute the earliest examples of the French School.

[5]The museum has a number of sculptural works by 1960s artists from a group called GEN-SHOKU, i.e. Phantom Touch (幻触, Shizuoka Kenritsu Bijutsukan), a local avant-garde city-based movement of the XXth century: Issei Koike (小池一誠), Shoji Iida (飯田昭二), Yoshinori Suzuki (鈴木慶則), Morichi Maeda (前田守一) and Katsuji Niwa (丹羽勝次).

[6],[7] The main attraction of this museum is its lofty 3.025 m2 (32,560 ft2) domed Rodin Wing (designed by the Shizuoka office of Nissoken Architects and Engineers, Tokyo) which opened in March 1994[8],[9] and offers a splendid home to a collection of thirty-two sculptures by the renowned French artist Auguste Rodin, including certified versions of The Thinker, The Gates of Hell, The Burghers of Calais, ... and some Monuments to great artists, such as James McNeill Whistler, Claude Lorrain, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Charles Baudelaire or Honoré de Balzac.