Past Exhibitions

Summer Special Exhibition

The Maki-e Masters
Their Edo-period Flowering

Spring Special Exhibition

Beauty in Prayer
"Universal Symphony"

Autumn Special Exhibit

The Birth of Ancient China
From Neolithic Times to the Han Dynasty

Autumn Special Exhibition

Connecting Civilizations
From Ancient Central Asia to East Asia

Summer Special Exhibition

The Vessels of Kaiseki

Summer Special Exhibit

The Birth of Ancient China:
From Neolithic Times to the Han Dynasty

Spring Special Exhibition

The Vessels of Kaiseki

Autumn Special Exhibition

Masterpieces from the Japanese Painting Collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art

Summer Exhibition

The Age of Maki-e
The Kōdaiji Style and the Birth of the Master Artisans

Spring Special Exhibition

Contemporary Art at the Miho Museum

Autumn Special Exhibition

The Miho Museum Painting Collection and the Heart of Japanese Art

Autumn Special Exhibition

Bizen
From Earth and Fire, Exquisite Forms

Summer Special Exhibition II

Shigaraki Palace and the Gods and Buddhas of the Kōka Region

Summer Special Exhibition I

Discovering Nagata Yūji: Unsung Makie Master

Autumn ExhibitionⅡ

100 Modern Tea Scoop
Connoisseurship and Society

Autumn sessionⅠ

Ancient Civilizations of the Americas
The Human and the Supernatural

Summer Special Exhibition

Red and Blue
Exploring the World of Sacred Colors

Spring Special Exhibition :

Sarugaku Masks
Shaping the Culture of Noh

20th Anniversary Special Exhibition

Here is Shangri-La
I. M. Pei and the Miho Museum Story

20th Anniversary Special Display

In Quest of Eternal Bliss

Summer Special Exhibition

Sesson
A Singular Painter

"The Beauties of Japanese Glass:
The Bindeisha Collection"

"Bliss of the Ancient Orient"

"JEWELS OF THE MUGHAL EMPERORS AND MAHARAJAS: Treasures from the Al Thani Collection"

"Kenzan: Miho Museum Collection"

"KIWAMI :
In Praise of Tea Ceremony Kettles"

"Kazari :
Decoration in Faith and Festival"

"A New Yorker’s View of the World : The John C.Weber Collection"

"Celebrating Two Contemporary Geniuses: Jakuchu and Buson"

"Barnett Newman, The Stations of the Cross"

"Japanese Art from the Miho Museum Collection"

"Shishi and Komainu:
Mythical Beasts from Far Away"

"The Miho Merciful Mother Kannon and the Lotus Miroku: Two Tapestries"

"Edo Kaleidoscope:
Sarasa, Bidoro, Oranda"

"Negoro:
The Efflorescence of Medieval Japanese Lacquerware"

Summer Special Exhibition:

"THE FLOWERING OF EDO PERIOD PAINTING JAPANESE MASTERWORKS FROM THE FEINBERG COLLECTION"

"Ancient Glass: Feast of Color
- on Special Loan from the British Museum"

"Dogū, a Cosmos Ancient Clay Figurines"

Summer Special Exhibition:

"Invitation to the Monster World: Tale from the Mythic Past"

Special 15th Anniversary of MIHO MUSEUM:

"Miho Grandama II: To the Honored Mother"

"Omi: Spiritual Home of Kami and Hotoke The Path to Tendai Buddhism
- In Search of the Eternal Śākyamuni Buddha - "

Summer Special Exhibition:

"Ancient Civilizations of the Americas Man, Nature and Spirit in Pre-Columbian Art"

"NAGASAWA ROSETSU : The Fanciful Painter"

Autumn Special Exhibition:

"Ceramics of Medieval Japan:
The Six Old Kilns and Their Environs"

"MIHO GRANDAMA Arte della Luce III" Autumn

Summer Special Exhibition:

"Dynamic Decoration in Asia"

"MIHO GRANDAMA Arte della Luce II" Summer

Special Exhibition Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Founder of Miho Museum :

"MIHO GRANDAMA Arte della Luce"

Summer and Autumn Special Exhibition:

"From the Lands of Oxus:
Ancient Central Asia-Bridge between East and West"

Autumn Special Exhibition:

"JAKUCHÛ Wonderland"

Summer Special Exhibition :

"Tales of the Buddhas"

Spring Special Exhibition :

"Eurasian Winds toward Silla"

Autumn Special Exhibition:

"Japan is Beautiful"

Summer Special Exhibition:

"Rhyton :
Ancient Sacred Drinking Vessels"

Spring Special Exhibition:

"YOSA BUSON :
On the Wings of Art"

Exhibitions Commemorating the Museum's 10th Anniversary:

"The Miho Museum Collection: Spanning the Millennia"

Exhibitions Commemorating the Museum's 10th Anniversary:

"The Archaic Smile
- From the Mediterranean to East Asia and Japan"

"All things Small, All things Beautiful"

Exhibitions Commemorating the Museum's 10th Anniversary:

"Buddhist Sculptures from Shandong Province, China:
From Tracing the Source of Asuka Buddhist Imagery"

Autumn Special Exhibition:

"Aesthetic Eyes of Aoyama Jiro"

Summer Special Exhibition:

"The Spirit of Japanese Glass:
From Magatama to Vidro/Diamant"

Spring Special Exhibition:

"Enduring Legacy of Japanese Art: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection"

Autumn Special Exhibition:

"china crossroads of culture
-On the way to the Great Tang Civilization-"

Summer Special Exhibition:

"Serizawa Keisuke
- A Lifetime Devoted to Beauty in Utility"

Spring Special Exhibition:

"Shaping the Sacred"

Autumn Special Exhibition:

"Kenzan
-A World of Quietly Refined Elegance-"

Summer and Autumn Special Exhibition:

"Ancient Civilizations of the Americas
-Splendor of 3000 years-"

Spring Special Exhibition:

"Selected Pottery Treasures from Xian"

Autumn Special Exhibition:

"Japanese Designs Celebrating Autumn"

Summer Special Exhibition:

"An Exhibition Honoring the 100th Anniversary of Kobayashi Hideo’s Birth The Heart in Search of Beauty"

Special Spring Exhibition:

"Islamic Decorative Designs of Egypt:
Aesthetic Sense Found in Daily Life"

Commemorating the 5th Anniversary of the Opening of the MIHO MUSEUM [South Wing]

Commemorating the 5th Anniversary of the Opening of the MIHO MUSEUM [North Wing]

Special Spring Exhibition:

"Arts Treasured by the Hosokawa Clan -Selections from the Eisei-Bunko Museum Collection ”

Special Autumn Exhibition:

"Longmen Caves”

Special Exhibition:

"ANCIENT GLASS”

Tenth Anniversary Shumei Culture Prize "Special Exhibition of Recipient’s Work”

Special Exhibition:

"The World of Shirasu Masako”

"Treasures from the Orient”
A Homecoming for Art Works Displayed in Vienna and Leiden

"Auspicious Animals in China’s Warring States Period”

Special Exhibition:

"A Tama-tebako for Spring”

The Shumei Culture Foundation Prize "Tenth Anniversary Exhibition”

"Koshigaraki
-The Shigaraki Jar in the Middle Ages”

Exhibition:

"Animals in Ancient China”

Lacquer ware from the Miho Museum Collection

The First Anniversary Exhibition

Grand Opening