Abeno Harukas Art Museum | |
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あべのハルカス美術館 | |
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General information | |
Address | 1-1-43 Abenosuji, Abeno-ku |
Town or city | Ōsaka, Ōsaka Prefecture |
Country | Japan |
Coordinates | 34°38′45″N 135°30′51″E / 34.645829°N 135.514102°E |
Opened | March 2014 |
Technical details | |
Floor area | 880 m2 (exhibition hall) |
Website | |
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Abeno Harukas Art Museum (あべのハルカス美術館, Abeno Harukasu Bijutsukan) opened in Abeno-ku, Ōsaka, Japan, in 2014. Specializing in temporary exhibitions, it is located on the 16th floor of Abeno Harukas, Japan's tallest building, named after the ward of Abeno and the expression harukasu (晴るかす), meaning 'brightening up'. The Museum's inaugural director is art historian Asano Shūgō ( 浅野秀剛), director of Kintetsu Railway Company's other cultural initiative, the Yamato Bunkakan. [1]
Exhibitions have had as their subject: [2] [3]
2014:
Tōdai-ji; Collection of
Museo Poldi Pezzoli;
Dufy;
Neo-impressionism
2015: Treasures from
Mount Kōya;
Kawakita Handeishi (
川喜田半泥子); Treasures from
Kotohira-gū;
Tove Jansson;
Ukiyo-e from the
Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museum of Magic
2016: Museum of Magic; Treasures from
Hase-dera;
Picasso;
Star Wars;
Yōkai;
Munakata Shikō
2017:
Munakata Shikō;
Renoir;
Matisse and
Roualt;
Kitano Tsunetomi (
北野恒富); Treasures from
Saidai-ji;
Hokusai (with the
British Museum);
Studio Ghibli
2018:
Studio Ghibli;
Tōgō Seiji; Works by
Harunobu from the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Learn and Play!; Tower of the Sun; Works by
M. C. Escher from the
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2019: Works by
M. C. Escher from the
Israel Museum, Jerusalem;
Japanese crafts from the
Meiji period to today;
Winnie the Pooh;
Gustave Moreau; The
Pre-Raphaelites;
Caravaggio
2020:
Caravaggio; Treasures from
Yakushi-ji;
Anno Mitsumasa;
Moomin the Art and Story; Masters of
Edo Painting;
Atsuhiko Misawa
2021: Treasures of the
Prince of Liechtenstein; 160th Anniversary of
Grandma Moses; Masterpieces of the
Pola Museum of Art;
Tupera Tupera; The collection of Fukutomi Taro
2022: Impressionist Masterworks from The
Israel Museum;
Hideaki Anno; 120th anniversary of
Peter Rabbit;
Kazuo Umezz, The art of
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
2023: The genius of
Ekin; Contemporary Art inspired by
Meiji crafts;
Mitsumasa Anno;
Junko Koshino
2024: 10th Anniversary of Abeno Harukas;
Enku;
Tokugawa Art Museum exhibition