Exhibitions in Osaka

Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka

About 50 women artists trace a century of making in Japan, and how education, materials and lifestyles changed.

Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts

Feature display on Vietnamese blue-and-white ceramics and maritime trade, with late openings until 19:00 on selected Fridays and Saturdays.

Nakanoshima Museum of Art, OsakaFree

Solo show by Inui Mayuko in the museum's second-floor multipurpose space, part of the Osaka Directory series.

Itsuo Art Museum

Marks 70 years since the death of Hankyu founder Kobayashi Ichizo, with literary and art works that appear in his writings.

Nakanoshima Museum of Art, OsakaFree

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

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.

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.

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.