Abeno Harukas Art Museum

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]

Abeno Harukas Art Museum
あべのハルカス美術館
Abeno Harukas, Japan's tallest building; Abeno Harukas Art Museum is on the sixteenth floor
General information
Address1-1-43 Abenosuji, Abeno-ku
Town or cityŌsaka, Ōsaka Prefecture
CountryJapan
Coordinates34°38′45″N 135°30′51″E
OpenedMarch 2014
Technical details
Floor area880 m2 (exhibition hall)
Website
Official website

List of exhibitions

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

See also
  • Yamato Bunkakan

References
  1. News Release (PDF) (in Japanese). Kintetsu Railway Corporation. 29 May 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
  2. これまでの展覧会 [Past Exhibitions] (in Japanese). Abeno Harukas Art Museum. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
  3. これからの展覧会 [Future Exhibitions] (in Japanese). Abeno Harukas Art Museum. Retrieved 20 August 2019.


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