The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, which celebrated its seventieth anniversary in 2022, held a special exhibition of works from the MOMAT Collection, titled MOMAT Collection Special Feature – Playback: The Abstraction and Fantasy Exhibition (1953–1954) (Collection Gallery 3F, Wed., October 12, 2022–Sun., February 5, 2023). This exhibition not only displayed various materials related to the Abstraction and Fantasy: How to Understand Non-figurative (Non-realistic) Painting exhibition held at the museum in 1953 and the works exhibited at that time, but also presented a VR reproduction of the exhibition for the first time at the museum. (VR or virtual reality is a system that allows visitors to experience a computer-generated virtual space as if it were real). This VR reproduction was made possible with the technical assistance of the Preparatory Office for the National Center for Art Research, based on digital images made from glass-plate negatives and other archival materials that were stored in the museum’s art library.

Cooperative programs by the Preparatory Office for the Establishment of the National Center for Art Research include:
・VR testing using a game engine compatible with various platforms, and design and development of VR reproduction.
・In-house operational design of VR reproduction, reproduction of interiors, and display of images of works
・Joint production of curator talk videos