Abeno Harukas Art Museum
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About
Abeno Harukas Art Museum (, 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 , meaning 'brightening up'. The Museum's inaugural director is art historian Asano Shūgō , director of Kintetsu Railway Company's other cultural initiative, the Yamato Bunkakan.
Exhibitions have had as their subject: 2014: Tōdai-ji; Collection of Museo Poldi Pezzoli; Dufy; Neo-impressionism 2015: Treasures from Mount Kōya; Kawakita Handeishi ; 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 ; 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
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