Exhibitions

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100th Anniversary of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2026

June 10 (Wed) – July 1 (Wed), 2026

Special Exhibitions

100th Anniversary of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
ANDREW WYETH Boundaries or Windows

April 28 (Tue) – July 5 (Sun), 2026

Special Exhibitions

100th Anniversary of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Masters of Swedish Painting from Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

January 27 (Tue) – April 12 (Sun), 2026

Ueno Artist Project 2025: Embroidery―Expression of Life from the Rhythm of a Needle

November 18 (Tue), 2025 – January 8 (Thu), 2026

Collection Exhibitions

When Embroidery is Born―Modern & Contemporary Thread, Needle and Fabric Creations Seen in the Tokyo Metropolitan Collection

November 18 (Tue), 2025 – January 8 (Thu), 2026

Special Exhibitions

Van Gogh’s Home: The Van Gogh Museum. The Painter’s Legacy, the Family Collection, the Ongoing Story

September 12 (Fri) – December 21 (Sun), 2025

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Welcome to Art Communication Programs – Showcase 2025

July 31 (Thu) – August 10(Sun), 2025

Thematic Exhibitions

Pleasure in Making: The Creative Spirit of DIY for Living

July 24 (Thu) – October 8 (Wed), 2025

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Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2025

June 10 (Tue) – July 2 (Wed), 2025

Special Exhibitions

Joan Miró

March 1 (Sat), 2025 – July 6 (Sun), 2025

Ueno Artist Project 2024: Nostalgia ―Scenery in Memory

November 16 (Sat), 2024 – January 8 (Wed), 2025

Collection Exhibitions

Tokyo Metropolitan Collection Exhibition: Genealogy of Nostalgia ― From the Taisho Era to the Present

November 16 (Sat), 2024 – January 8 (Wed), 2025

Special Exhibitions

Tanaka Isson: Light and Soul

September 19 (Thu) – December 1 (Sun), 2024

Thematic Exhibitions

The Whispering Land: Artists in Correspondence with Nature

July 20 (Sat) – October 9 (Wed), 2024

Special Exhibitions

Giorgio De Chirico: Metaphysical Journey

April 27 (Sat) – August 29 (Thu), 2024

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Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2024

June 10 (Mon) – June 30 (Sun), 2024

Special Exhibitions

Frontiers of Impressionism: Paintings from the Worcester Art Museum

January 27 (Sat) – April 7 (Sun), 2024

Ueno Artist Project 2023: Picturing and Touching the Lives of Others — Fungi, Plants, Animals and Humans

November 16 (Thu), 2023 – January 8 (Mon-holiday), 2024

Collection Exhibitions

At the Zoo — From the Tokyo Metropolitan Collection and Other Collections

November 16 (Thu), 2023 – January 8 (Mon-holiday), 2024

Special Exhibitions

Rome, the Eternal City: Masterpieces from the Capitoline Museums’ Collection

September 16 (Sat) – December 10 (Sun), 2023

Thematic Exhibitions

From the depths of Ueno, a story begins―Tamana Araki

July 22 (Sat) – October 9 (Mon-holiday), 2023

Special Exhibitions

Henri Matisse: The Path to Color

April 27 (Thu) – August 20 (Sun), 2023

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Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2023

June 10 (Sat) - July 2 (Sun), 2023

Special Exhibitions

Egon Schiele from the Collection of the Leopold Museum – Young Genius in Vienna 1900

January 26 (Thu) – April 9 (Sun), 2023

Collection Exhibitions

The Tale of Genji and Edo Culture

November 19 (Sat), 2022 – January 6 (Fri), 2023

Ueno Artist Project 2022: “Beauty Nurtured by The Tale of Genji —It is Fate that Brings Us Together”

November 19 (Sat), 2022 – January 6 (Fri), 2023

Special Exhibitions

Okamoto Taro: A Retrospective

October 18 (Tue) – December 28 (Wed), 2022

Thematic Exhibitions

Finn Juhl and Danish Chairs

July 23 (Sat) – October 9 (Sun), 2022

Special Exhibitions

Art & Power: From Pharaohs to Daimyōs. Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

July 23 (Sat) – October 2 (Sun), 2022

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Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2022

June 11 (Sat) – July 1 (Fri), 2022

Special Exhibitions

THE GREATS: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland

April 22 (Fri) – July 3 (Sun), 2022

Special Exhibitions

Johannes Vermeer and the Masters of the Golden Age of Dutch Painting from the collection of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Collection Exhibitions

Tokyo Metropolitan Collection Exhibition－Records and Memories of Ueno

November 17 (Wed), 2021 – January 6 (Thu), 2022

Ueno Artist Project 2021: "Everyday Life I am Reborn"

November 17 (Wed), 2021 – January 6 (Thu), 2022

Special Exhibitions

Collecting Van Gogh: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Passion for Vincent’s Art

September 18 (Sat) – December 12 (Sun), 2021

Thematic Exhibitions

Walls & Bridges ― Touching the World, Living the World

July 22 (Thu-holiday) – October 9 (Sat), 2021

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Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2021

June 10 (Thu) – June 30 (Wed), 2021

Special Exhibitions

Isamu Noguchi: Ways of Discovery

October 3 (Sat) – December 28 (Mon), 2020
April 24 (Sat) – August 29 (Sun), 2021

Special Exhibitions

Yoshida Hiroshi: Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of His Death

January 26 (Tue) – March 28 (Sun), 2021

Collection Exhibitions

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum's Collection Exhibition: "Reflecting on Japanese SHO of the Showa Period"

November 18 (Wed), 2020 – January 7 (Thu), 2021 December 28 (Mon), 2020

Ueno Artist Project 2020: "Experiencing the World of Japanese Contemporary SHO"

November 18 (Wed), 2020 – January 7 (Thu), 2021

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Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2020

June 9 (Tue) – June 30 (Tue), 2020
September 11 (Fri) – September 30 (Wed), 2020

Special Exhibitions

The UKIYO-E 2020

July 23 (Thu-holiday) – September 13 (Sun) September 22 (Tue-holiday), 2020

Special Exhibitions

Vilhelm Hammershøi and Danish Painting of the 19th Century

January 21 (Tue) – March 26 (Thu), 2020

Collection ExhibitionsFREE

From the TOP collection: Chikara Matsumoto “Memory Tracer”

November 16 (Sat), 2019 – January 5 (Sun), 2020

Ueno Artist Project 2019: “Artists Look at Children”

November 16 (Sat), 2019 – January 5 (Sun), 2020

Special Exhibitions

Masterpieces of Impressionism: The Courtauld Collection

September 10 (Tue) – December 15 (Sun), 2019

Thematic Exhibitions

Yasuko Iba, A Way of Seeing

July 20 (Sat) – October 9 (Wed), 2019

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Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2019

June 9 (Sun) – June 30 (Sun), 2019

Special Exhibitions

Gustav Klimt: Vienna – Japan 1900

April 23 (Tue) – July 10 (Wed), 2019

Special Exhibitions

Lineage of Eccentrics: The Miraculous World of Edo Painting

February 9 (Sat) – April 7 (Sun), 2019

Collection ExhibitionsFREE

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Collection Exhibition—Joy, Anger, Sorrow and Pleasure in Contemporary Sho

December 1 (Sat), 2018 – January 6 (Sun), 2019

Ueno Artist Project 2018: “Contemporary SHO—See, Know and Feel Today’s Calligraphy”

November 18 (Sun), 2018 – January 6 (Sun), 2019

Special Exhibitions

Munch: A Retrospective

October 27 (Sat), 2018 – January 20 (Sun), 2019

Special Exhibitions

Foujita: A Retrospective ― Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of his Death

July 31 (Tue) – October 8 (Mon-holiday), 2018

Thematic Exhibition

BENTO—Design for Eating, Gathering and Communicating

July 21 (Sat) – October 8 (Mon-holiday), 2018

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Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2018

June 9 (Sat) – July 1 (Sun), 2018

Special Exhibitions

Masterpieces of French Landscape Paintings from The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

April 14 (Sat) – July 8 (Sun), 2018

Special Exhibitions

Brueghel: 150 Years of an Artistic Dynasty

January 23 (Tue) – April 1 (Sun), 2018

Collection ExhibitionsFREE

From the MOT Collection: “Modern Realism”

November 17 (Fri), 2017 – January 6 (Sat), 2018

Ueno Artist Project: “Contemporary Realism—Transcending the Photograph and Video”

November 17 (Fri), 2017 – January 6 (Sat), 2018

Special Exhibitions

Van Gogh & Japan

October 24 (Tue), 2017 – January 8 (Mon-holiday), 2018

Thematic Exhibition

Hiroshi Sugito  module or lacuna

July 25 (Tue) – October 9 (Mon-holiday), 2017

Special Exhibitions

Great Collectors: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

July 20 (Thu) – October 9 (Mon-holiday), 2017

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Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2017

June 9 (Fri) – July 6 (Thu), 2017

Special Exhibitions

Collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Bruegel's “The Tower of Babel” and Great 16th Century Masters

April 18 (Tue) – July 2 (Sun), 2017

Cooperative Exhibition

New-wave Artists 2017―From the Public Entry Exhibition

February 19 (Sun) – March 15 (Wed), 2017

Special Exhibitions

Titian and the Renaissance in Venice

January 21 (Sat) – April 2 (Sun), 2017

Collection ExhibitionsFREE

One Hundred Views of New Tokyo―Woodcut Prints of Ninety Years Ago
From the Collection of Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

January 4 (Wed) – January 23 (Mon), 2017

Cooperative Exhibition

TOKYO “SHO” 2017: Japanese Calligraphy Today

January 4 (Wed) – January 15 (Sun), 2017

Cooperative ExhibitionFREE

Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2016

November 26 (Sat) – December 18 (Sun), 2016

Special Exhibitions

Van Gogh and Gauguin: Reality and Imagination

October 8 (Sat) – December 18 (Sun), 2016

Thematic Exhibition

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum’s 90th Anniversary Exhibition

July 26 (Tue) – October 2 (Sun), 2016

Special Exhibitions

Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou: Timeline 1906-1977

June 11 (Sat) – September 22 (Thu-holiday), 2016

Cooperative Exhibition

Best Selection 2016

May 4 (Wed-holiday) – May 27 (Fri), 2016

Special Exhibitions

The 300th Anniversary of his Birth: Jakuchu

April 22 (Fri) – May 24 (Tue), 2016

Cooperative Exhibition

New-wave Artists 2016―From the Public Entry Exhibition

February 19 (Fri) – March 15 (Tue), 2016

Special Exhibitions

Botticelli and His Time

January 16 (Sat) – April 3 (Sun), 2016

Collection ExhibitionsFREE

Kanji You Can Feel—NISHIKAWA Yasushi, AOYAMA San’u and TESHIMA Yukei

January 4 (Mon) – January 23 (Sat), 2016

Cooperative Exhibition

TOKYO “SHO” 2016: Japanese Calligraphy Today

January 4 (Mon) – January 16 (Sat), 2016

Cooperative ExhibitionFREE

Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2015

November 26 (Thu) – December 20 (Sun), 2015

Special Exhibitions

Impressionist Masterpieces from Marmottan Monet Museum

September 19 (Sat) – December 13 (Sun), 2015

Thematic Exhibition

Kubbe Makes an Art Museum - by seeing, gathering, studying and exhibiting

July 18 (Sat) – October 4 (Sun), 2015

Special Exhibitions

Legendary artists of Japanese Western PaintingThe Centennial of the NIKA Exhibition

July 18 (Sat) – September 6 (Sun), 2015

Cooperative Exhibition

Best Selection 2015

May 4 (Mon-holiday) – May 27 (Wed), 2015

Special Exhibitions

The British Museum Exhibiton: A History of the World in 100 Objects

April 18 (Sat) – June 28 (Sun), 2015

Cooperative Exhibition

New-wave Artists 2015―From the Public Exhibition

February 19 (Thu) – March 15 (Sun), 2015

Special Exhibitions

Neo-Impressionism, from Light to Color

January 24 (Sat) – March 29 (Sun), 2015

Collection ExhibitionsFREE

Contemporary calligraphy on decorated paper: Focusing on Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Collection

January 4 (Sun) – January 23 (Fri), 2015

Cooperative Exhibition

TOKYO "SHO" 2015: Japanese Calligraphy Today

January 4 (Sun) – January 16 (Fri), 2015

Cooperative ExhibitionFREE

Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2014

November 26 (Wed), 2014 – January 10 (Sun), 2015

Special Exhibitions

Arte a Firenze da Botticelli a Bronzino: verso una maniera moderna

October 11 (Sat) – December 14 (Sun), 2014

Thematic Exhibition

Art as a Haven of Happiness

July 26 (Sat) – October 8 (Wed), 2014

Special Exhibitions

Ancient Egyptian Queens and Goddesses: Treasures from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

July 19 (Sat) – September 23 (Tue-holiday), 2014

Cooperative Exhibition

Best Selection 2014

May 4 (Sun-holiday) – May 27 (Tue), 2014

Special Exhibitions

Balthus: A Retrospective

April 19 (Sat) – June 22 (Sun), 2014

Cooperative Exhibition

New-wave Artists 2014―From the Public Entry Exhibition

February 19 (Wed) – March 7 (Fri), 2014

Special Exhibitions

The Centennial Exhibition of the Japan Art Institute’s Revival: The Masterpieces of NIHONGA

January 25 (Sat) – April 1 (Tue), 2014

Collection ExhibitionsFREE

Viewing Fuji

January 4 (Sat) – January 16 (Thu), 2014

Cooperative Exhibition

TOKYO “SHO” 2014: Japanese Calligraphy Today

January 4 (Sat) – January 16 (Thu), 2014

Cooperative ExhibitionFREE

Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2013

October 13 (Sun), 2013 – March 8 (Sat), 2014

Special Exhibitions

Turner from the Tate: the Making of a Master

October 8 (Tue) – December 18 (Wed), 2013

Thematic Exhibition

Miran Fukuda

July 23 (Tue) – September 29 (Sun), 2013

Special Exhibitions

The Mediterranean World: The Collection from the Louvre

July 20 (Sat) – September 23 (Mon), 2013

Cooperative Exhibition

Best Selection 2013

May 4 (Sat-holiday) – May 27 (Mon), 2013

Special Exhibitions

LEONARD DA VINCI Biblioteca Pinacoteca Ambrosiana

April 23 (Tue) – June 30 (Sun), 2013

Cooperative Exhibition

New-wave Artists 2013―From the Public Entry Exhibition

February 19 (Tue) – March 7 (Thu), 2013

Special Exhibitions

El Greco's Visual Poetics

January 19 (Sat) – April 7 (Sun), 2013

Collection ExhibitionsFREE

Collections: Japanese Modern Calligraphy

January 4 (Fri) – January 16 (Wed), 2013

Cooperative Exhibition

TOKYO "SHO" 2013: Japanese Calligraphy Today

January 4 (Fri) – January 16 (Wed), 2013

Special Exhibitions

Earth, Sea and Sky: Nature in Western Art; Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

October 6 (Sat), 2012 – January 4 (Fri), 2013

Cooperative ExhibitionFREE

Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2012

August 12 (Sun), 2012 – March 8 (Fri), 2013

Thematic ExhibitionFREE

The Story of Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

July 15 (Sun) – September 30 (Sun), 2012

Thematic Exhibition

Arts&Life: Where will we live tomorrow?

July 15 (Sun) – September 30 (Sun), 2012

Special Exhibitions

Masterpieces from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis

June 30 (Sat) – September 17 (Mon), 2012

Cooperative Exhibition

Best Selection 2012

May 4 (Fri-holiday) – May 27 (Sun), 2012