Abeno Harukas Art Museum
Abeno Harukas Art Museum 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 浅野秀剛, director of Kintetsu Railway Company's other cultural initiative, the Yamato Bunkakan.
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Abeno Harukas Art Museum 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 浅野秀剛, director of Kintetsu Railway Company's other cultural initiative, the Yamato Bunkakan.
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• Name — Abeno Harukas Art Museum • Native Name — あべのハルカス美術館 • Address — 1-1-43 Abenosuji, Abeno-ku • Location Town — Ōsaka, Ōsaka Prefecture • Location Country — Japan • Opened Date — March 2014 • Floor Area — 880 m 2 (exhibition hall) • Website — www.aham.jp
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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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