Exhibitions in Osaka

National Museum of Art, Osaka

Works from the museum's collection on images and words where languages and cultures meet, focused on Asian borderlands shaped by colonial rule and war.

National Museum of Art, Osaka

Collection show revisiting Pop Art, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 1960s and the social conditions behind them, ahead of the museum's 2027 anniversary.

Nakanoshima Museum of Art, OsakaFree

Osaka-born photographer and video artist Sako Teppei presents new works asking whether time itself can be photographed.

Abeno Harukas Art Museum

The career of Vienna-born London potter Lucie Rie, shown with Leach, Coper and Hamada and her ties to Eastern ceramics.

Abeno Harukas Art Museum

Japan's first Wyeth retrospective: about 100 works, 15 new to Japan, built around windows, doors and the theme of boundaries.

Nakanoshima Museum of Art, OsakaFree

Solo show of new self-portrait based works by Tachibana Hazuki, including large pieces that blur life-size scale.

National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku)

Special exhibition on Ainu life along the Saru River in Hokkaido, from ancestral times to the present.

National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku)

Thematic exhibition on the history of the Torres Strait and its ties to Japan, seen through the Ohshima George photograph collection.

Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka

Marks 50 years of NHK's Sunday Museum art programme, with works by Ishida Tetsuya, Takahashi Yuichi, Ito Jakuchu and Funakoshi Katsura.

Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts

Ming dynasty calligraphy from the Taipei collection of Ho Chuang-shih, shown in a special exhibition. No display changes during the run.

Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts

Chinese cave-temple sculpture from the museum's collection, featuring Tianlongshan, Longmen and Xiangtangshan, including a seated Tang Buddha of 703.

Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts

Chinese and Japanese metalwork compared, including a 14th-century openwork silver-gilt sutra box and the Han dynasty winged figure that inspired the museum's mascot.

Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts

Jingdezhen porcelain from the late Ming to early Qing, made for Chinese, European and Japanese tastes, shown alongside the Ming calligraphy exhibition.

Fujita Museum

Noh masks, robes and related paintings and lacquerware, shown with the Shukugawa Noh stage Kawarashoen to explain Noh.

Osaka Science Museum

A hands-on planned exhibition on the 1st floor that invites visitors to observe, test and think about the puzzles hidden in everyday objects and phenomena.

Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka

Edo-period paintings and ukiyo-e prints from the British Museum's Japanese collection, including works by Hokusai, Utamaro and Hiroshige.

Fujita Museum

Fujita curators pick the works they most covet, among them Kano Sansetsu's Landscape in Summer and Winter, a Fierce Old Tiger and Ninsei incense containers.

Osaka Museum of History

About 40 items from the Okuda family on the showman who helped build Meiji-era Sennichimae, including a guestbook, performer photos and account books.