The Pola Museum of Art is dedicated to the artworks collected over a period of more than forty years by the late Suzuki Tsuneshi(1930-2000), the former owner of the Pola Group. Numbering approximately 9,500 in all, these works include examples of modern European painting, modern Japanese Western-style painting, contemporary Japanese-style painting, prints, sculpture, Oriental ceramics, modern and contemporary Japanese ceramics, glasswork, and cosmetic utensils from a variety of eras and regions of the world.

Forming the nucleus of the collection are approximately four hundred modern Western paintings, chiefly works by Impressionists such as Monet and Renoir, Post-Impressionists such as Cezanne and Gauguin, the painters of the Ecole de Paris such as Modigliani and Chagall, and twentieth-century painters such as Picasso and Kandinsky. The founding of the Pola Museum of Art has made it possible for this collection, previously not available for public viewing, to be shown in its entirety for the first time.