The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and the Musée d’Orsay will present a special exhibition titled “The Joy of Living in the Present: Works from the Musée d’Orsay Collection” to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum’s opening. The exhibition will run from November 14 through March 28, 2027. It will not travel to other venues.
This exhibition features approximately 110 carefully selected works—including paintings, sculptures, crafts, and photographs—from the collection of the Musée d’Orsay, known as the “Temple of the Impressionists,” which is celebrating its 40th anniversary in Paris, under the theme “The Joy of Living in the Present.” Organized into seven sections, the exhibition features works by artists who, amid the tumultuous times of the 19th century, focused on the familiar “here and now” and found modest happiness in everyday life.
In addition to Jean-François Millet’s *The Gleaners*, which is returning to Japan for the first time in 23 years, Vincent van Gogh’s *Starry Night* and Paul Gauguin’s *Ala Ala’ea* are also coming to Japan from Paris for the first time in 16 years.
In addition, the exhibition features Claude Monet’s “Paris, Rue de Montorgueil, Festival on June 30, 1878,” Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “The Reader,” Edgar Degas’s “Rehearsal at the Opera on Rue Le Pertier,” and Gustave Caillebotte’s “Floor Scraper,” among other masterpieces.
The spatial design for the venue will be handled by Cecile Dugo, an exhibition designer active internationally, primarily in France.
Admission is 2,400 yen for general admission (2,200 yen in advance), 1,300 yen for college and vocational school students (1,100 yen in advance), 1,600 yen for those 65 and older (1,400 yen in advance), and free for those 18 and under, including high school students. On weekdays from December 8 to 18, admission is also free for college and vocational school students.
In addition, various special-event tickets will be available for a limited time and in limited quantities. Details are as follows.
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