Exhibitions
Special Exhibitions
100th Anniversary of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
What a Wonderful World: Masterworks from the Musée d’Orsay
November 14 (Sat),2026 – March 28 (Sun), 2027
In the 19th century, various artists began taking a keen interest in expressing the “here and now” of daily life. This shift came at a time when the middle class was expanding with the growth of industry, and technological innovations were dramatically reshaping society. The new lifestyles and scenes that emerged were recorded by artists through novel forms of expression, giving rise to works that presented subjects finding small joys in the everyday as they resiliently navigated life in an era of tumultuous change.
This exhibition will present around 110 works from the veritable “temple of Impressionism,” the Musée d'Orsay, representing diverse media such as painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and photography, all tied together by the theme of “What a Wonderful World.” These snapshots of the joys of life—captured through the eyes of artists such as Jean-François Millet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh—promise to inspire us to make new discoveries and acquire fresh perspectives in the midst of our own era of rapid social change.