Meiji Kaigakan(Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery) is an art museum(Seitoku-Kinen-Kaiga-Kan) in one corner in Meiji Shrine Outer Garden. The pictures drawn on the strict historical investigation based on a historical fact in the brave figure and historical spectacle of the crucial reforms of the Restoration and great men which were finished focusing on Emperor Meiji from an end of Edo Period to Meiji Era are exhibited. Meiji Shrine Outer Garden of the building itself is central, and it serves as a solemn dome-like building. The design, based on the drawing by Masatsugu Kobayashi that was chosen as the best work from among 156 enteries from the public.
The original drawing was modified by Meiji-jingu Zoeikyoku (building department).