Exhibitions in Tokyo
July 2026
July 2026 at a glance: 9 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 12 more were on view across the city.
Opened in July
TOP Collection: Tomorrow's Dining Table2 JulTokyo Photographic Art MuseumPast
Fourteen photographers explore how meals connect us to memory, other people and social issues, drawn from the museum's own collection.
- Rembrandt the Etcher: His Challenges and His Impact7 Jul
National Museum of Western ArtPast
Around 130 prints trace Rembrandt's innovations in etching and their influence on European printmakers through to Matisse and Picasso.
Ikimono Super World: National Museum of Nature and Science × NHK Darwin ga Kita!11 JulNational Museum of Nature and SciencePast
A special exhibition on animal survival strategies and adaptive evolution, made with the mimuseum's own specimens and footage from NHK's nature series Darwin ga Kita!
Jun Aoki's Selection From the Terada Collection 08718 JulTokyo Opera City Art GalleryPast
Architect Jun Aoki selects paintings by Nomata Minoru from the museum's Terada Collection, shown alongside the Almost Sky exhibition.
project N 103: Higashiyama Shiori18 JulTokyo Opera City Art GalleryPast
Emerging-artist series entry showing Higashiyama Shiori's watercolour and coloured-pencil paintings on Japanese paper, in the 4th-floor corridor.
Almost Sky: Jun Aoki + Richard Tuttle18 JulTokyo Opera City Art GalleryPast
A two-person show pairing architect Jun Aoki with artist Richard Tuttle, filling the gallery's five spaces with structures and light that blur architecture and art.
- Collection Highlight: Upon the Centennial of Claude Monet's Death22 Jul
National Museum of Western ArtPast
Marking 100 years since Monet's death, all 19 of the museum's Monet works go on view, including rarely shown drawings and a new acquisition.
Views of This Place—Ueno, Omuta, and Buenos Aires23 JulTokyo Metropolitan Art MuseumPast
100th-anniversary show tracing the museum's century through Ueno Park, painter Egami Shigeo's Kyushu coal towns, and an immigrant family's story in Buenos Aires.
Edo in Focus: Japanese Treasures from the British Museum25 JulTokyo Metropolitan Art MuseumPast
100th-anniversary loan show of Edo-period ukiyo-e paintings and prints by Utamaro, Sharaku, Hokusai and Hiroshige from the British Museum's Japanese collection.
Was on view in July
Picasso, through the Eyes of Paul Smithto 21 SeptThe National Art Center, TokyoPast
British designer Paul Smith art-directs a colourful, free-spirited hang of roughly 80 Picasso works from the Musée National Picasso-Paris.
Idemitsu Mako: What a Woman Madeto 21 SeptTokyo Photographic Art MuseumPast
Retrospective of pioneering experimental filmmaker and video artist Idemitsu Mako (b. 1940), examining women's lived experience, family and media through the museum's holdings of her work.
Ron Mueckto 23 SeptMori Art MuseumPast
Hyperrealistic figurative sculptures by Australian artist Ron Mueck, exploring vulnerability and scale, curated with Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain; six works make their Japan debut.
- MAM Collection 022: Timoteus Anggawan Kusnoto 23 Sept
Mori Art MuseumPast
Rotating collection showcase featuring Indonesian-Dutch artist Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, whose mixed-media work examines colonialism and historical memory, including Dismantling Nostalgia (2024).
- MAM Screen 023: Josh Klineto 23 Sept
Mori Art MuseumPast
Japan premiere of two Josh Kline video works using everyday acts of combustion (gasoline and cigarettes) to trace climate change back to industrialization and empire.
- MAM Research 012: Diasporic Memories – Korean Artists Living Beyond Bordersto 23 Sept
Mori Art MuseumPast
Works by three artists of Korean heritage living abroad (Quac Insik, Song Hyun-Sook and Alexander Ugay) exploring migration, identity and personal versus national memory.
- Artists Gathering at Cafés: From Manet, Van Gogh, and Toulouse-Lautrec to Picassoto 23 Sept
Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, TokyoPast
Traces how late-19th-century Parisian cafés like the Chat Noir fostered modern art, with roughly 130 works by Manet, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Casas and Picasso.
Ettore Sottsass: Design begins where magic beginsto 4 OctArtizon MuseumPast
Japan's first major retrospective of Italian design master Ettore Sottsass, with over 100 works from the 1950s to his final years, in the museum's first-ever design exhibition.
- Takiguchi Shuzo: Writing and Drawingto 4 Oct
Artizon MuseumPast
Over 140 works trace poet and art critic Takiguchi Shuzo's move from writing to visual art, pairing his experimental drawings with pieces by Klee, Duchamp and Miro.
Myth, Allegory, and Celebration: Print Works and the Courts of Italy from the Renaissance to the Baroqueto 12 OctNational Museum of Western ArtPast
About 50 prints trace mythological and allegorical imagery and courtly celebration culture in Italy from the Renaissance to the Baroque.
- "Shōwa 100th": How Conservation and Restoration Evolved at the NMWA during the Shōwa Period — Van Gogh's Roses and Renoir's Woman with a Hatto 11 Jan 2027
National Museum of Western Art
Marking Japan's Shōwa centennial, this display traces conservation and restoration work at the NMWA from its 1959 founding through 1989.
- The Studio of Yuriko Yamawaki: Treasure from an Artist's Clutterto 31 May 2027
Ghibli Museum, Mitaka
Recreation of illustrator Yuriko Yamawaki's studio, exploring her picture-book collaborations with Rieko Nakagawa and her influence on Hayao Miyazaki.
Image credits
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- TOP Collection: Tomorrow's Dining TableCourtesy of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
- Ikimono Super World: National Museum of Nature and Science × NHK Darwin ga Kita!Courtesy of National Museum of Nature and Science
- Jun Aoki's Selection From the Terada Collection 087Courtesy of Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
- project N 103: Higashiyama ShioriCourtesy of Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
- Almost Sky: Jun Aoki + Richard TuttleCourtesy of Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
- Views of This Place—Ueno, Omuta, and Buenos AiresCourtesy of Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
- Edo in Focus: Japanese Treasures from the British MuseumCourtesy of Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
- Picasso, through the Eyes of Paul SmithCourtesy of The National Art Center, Tokyo
- Idemitsu Mako: What a Woman Made©Mako Idemitsu 撮影：中川周
- Ron MueckPhoto: Nam Kiyong Photo courtesy: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
- Ettore Sottsass: Design begins where magic beginsCourtesy of Artizon Museum
- Myth, Allegory, and Celebration: Print Works and the Courts of Italy from the Renaissance to the BaroqueCourtesy of National Museum of Western Art
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