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Miwotsukushi: Beauty Galore —A Guide to the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts Collection

Miwotsukushi: Beauty Galore
—A Guide to the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts Collection

September 14 to November 13, 2022

*Download the list of changes in works on display
*There will be an exhibition change during the course of exhibition.
*The period is subject to change.
*Photography permitted only for works with PHOTO OK mark in this exhibition.

Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts opened as the third public (prefectural or municipal) art museum in Japan, following Tokyo and Kyoto, in May 1936 (Showa 11).
Its collection was built through the support of many people and covers a wide range of genres such as Japanese and Chinese paintings, calligraphy, sculpture, and craftwork. Chronologically, it ranges from before the Common Era to modern times, and number-wise, there are more than 8,500 items in the collection. Another characteristic of the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts Collection is the point that it includes numerous individual collections formerly belonging to business leaders who were active mainly in the Kansai region. The museum’s location in Chausuyama, Tennoji-ku, was originally where the Sumitomo family’s principal residence was located. The grounds, together with the garden (Keitakuen), were donated to the city of Osaka.
The present building is Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) designated as a rare example of a large-scale art museum built before World War II. Before Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts celebrates the ninetieth anniversary of its opening in 2026, it will undergo large-scale improvement work. While the museum is closed for renovation, we have organized a traveling exhibition introducing masterpieces carefully selected from a variety of genres. These masterpieces have rarely been shown together in a single show even at Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, and this is the first time they are being exhibited en masse outside the museum itself.
The exhibition title “Miwotsukushi” literally means “the best of beauty,” and, phonetically, it also implies “miotsukushi (channel mark),” the Osaka City emblem. Like the channel marks in the former port Naniwazu indicating a safe sea route, we shall “miwotsukushi,” again a pun, which can also be interpreted as “do our very best,” to navigate you through this collection, which is indeed a profusion of beauty.

Movies about the exhibition

Works from the exhibition

Period

September 14 to November 13, 2022

Hours

10:00-18:00　*Friday and Saturday 10:00-20:00

*Open until 20:00 on September 18 and 22, October 9 and November 2
*Last admission: 30 minutes before closing
*Hours are subject to change.

Closed

Tuesdays

*Open until 18:00 on November 8

Admission

Adult	General ¥1,500	Advance ¥1,300
University and High School Student	General ¥1,000	Advance ¥800

Elementary, junior high school students and under are free.
*With a certificate of disability, the admission fee of a disabled person and a care-giver will be waived.
*Advance tickets will be available on the website from June 29 to September 13.

Discount

◇100 Yen Discount
•For presenting a ticket to a thematic exhibition at the National Art Center, Tokyo, or Mori Art Museum

*Only one discount per person

Audio Guide

¥600

English audio guide available

Organized by

Suntory Museum of Art, The Mainichi Newspapers Co., Ltd.

Miwotsukushi: Beauty Galore—A Guide to the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts Collection

SUNTORY MUSEUM of ART

Miwotsukushi: Beauty Galore
—A Guide to the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts Collection