Yonago City Museum of Art (米子市美術館, Yonago-shi Bijutsukan?) is a municipal art gallery in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture (Japan) that opened in 1983.
The gallery has a permanent collection of paintings and photographs; the latter is particularly strong for the photographers Teikō Shiotani and Shōji Ueda. It also hosts special exhibitions.
The museum is at Nakamachi 12, Yonago-shi.
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