Upcoming ExhibitionsSpecial Exhibition
Renaissance to Baroque
Master Drawings from the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Dates

Tuesday, 1 July - Sunday, 28 September 2025

Hours

9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Fridays, Saturdays 9:30 am – 8:00 pm
Admission ends 30 mins. before closing time

Closed

Mondays, 22 July and 16 September（Opens on 21 July, 11 August, 12 August, 15 September and 22 September）

Venue

Special Exhibition Wing

Admission Fees

Adults 2,000 yen, college students 1,300 yen, high school students 1,000 yen

Advance tickets
Adults 1,800 yen, college students 1,200 yen, high school students 900 yen

• * Admission is free for junior high school students and under.
• * Disabled visitors admitted free of charge, with one attendant.
• * College students, high school students and disabled visitors must show their relevant student ID, proof of age or disability status document upon entry to the museum.
• * Students and faculty members at National Museum of Art Campus Member institutions may view this exhibition on specially priced tickets (students = 1,100 yen, faculty members = 1,800 yen). These tickets are available at the National Museum of Western Art Ticket Office.
• * You can also see the permanent exhibition on the same day of viewing this exhibition.
• * Lively Saturday! -- an event-filled day when chatting in the galleries is encouraged -- will be held on 23 August (Sat.). Free admission to Permanent Collection Galleries.（Admission fees apply to Special Exhibitions.）
• * Advance tickets are on sale from Thursday, 29 May to Friday, 30 June 2025.

The exhibition galleries are relatively dark for the conservation of works.
You can read the gallery texts and list of works here to download the PDF.

The gallery texts / List of Works（PDF）

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Organized by

The National Museum of Western Art, The Yomiuri Shimbun

In collaboration with

Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

With the sponsorship of

Dai Nippon Printing (DNP)

In Cooperation with

Embassy of Sweden, ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS CO., LTD., TOKYO MX, The Western Art Foundation

Official website

https://drawings2025.jp

The Nationalmuseum was established in Stockholm, Sweden in 1792, and is thus one of the world's oldest art museums. Housing a broad-ranging collection that includes fine arts, decorative arts and design works, from the Medieval period through the present-day, the museum is particularly renowned for its quantitatively and qualitatively superb drawing collection. This exhibition features a selection of approximately 80 works from that collection, ranging in date from the Renaissance to the Baroque periods, and presented by region in four sections, Italy, France, Germany and The Netherlands.

Drawing is a medium capable of diverse expression, depending on when and where created, the materials and techniques used, and indeed, why the drawing was created. It is their immediacy that fascinates the most, a sense of being close to the drawing's creator, their thoughts and the traces of their hand's movements. Likewise, finesse and lightness are unique features of this medium.

Given that drawings are only put on limited public display, due to their sensitivity to changes in light, temperature and humidity, this exhibition's display of a world-renowned collection is a particularly rare event. We hope that you will enjoy this opportunity to fully engage with this fascinating medium. The displayed works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt and other great masters are overwhelming testimony to their amazing skill and expressive abilities, and those by less well-known artists provide yet new insight into this highly personal medium.

List of Works (PDF file, about 722KB)