Written by JC Team
Osaka gets the last stop of a three-city tour, and what the organizers call the first Andrew Wyeth retrospective in Japan since the painter died in 2009. The show is hung around a single idea rather than a career summary: the windows and doorways Wyeth kept painting, and what he put on either side of them.
What to expect
Around 100 works, more than ten of which have never been shown in Japan before, lent by the Whitney in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art and others. The organizers describe the theme as “boundaries”, the line between life and death, or between a painter’s inner world and the one outside the window.
The key work is Christina Olson, painted in 1947. If Wyeth is a familiar name at all outside the United States it is usually through Christina’s World, and this is a portrait of the same neighbor, made the year before it.
Wyeth has a long history with audiences here. According to the organizers, his first solo show in Japan in 1974 drew 330,000 people across Tokyo and Kyoto, and further exhibitions followed in 1995 and 2008. This is the first retrospective since his death. The Tokyo leg closed in July and Toyota runs to late September, so Osaka is the last chance to catch it.
Schedule
October 3 to December 6, 2026. Open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday to Friday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Mondays, weekends and public holidays. Last entry is 30 minutes before closing.
There is exactly one closed day in the whole run, Monday October 5.
Some of the works rotate partway through. The first half runs October 3 to November 3 and the second half from November 4 to December 6.
Tickets 2026
On the day, entry is ¥2,200 for adults, ¥1,800 for university and high school students, and ¥500 for elementary and junior-high school children. Buying ahead, which you can do until October 2, brings that down to ¥2,000, ¥1,600 and ¥300. There is also an advance pair ticket at ¥3,600 covering two general admissions, and you are allowed to use both halves yourself on two separate visits.
Groups of 15 or more get the advance rate, and visitors with a disability certificate plus one companion pay half the same-day price at the museum ticket counter.
Separately, if you are also seeing the Ming dynasty calligraphy exhibition at the Osaka City Museum of Art, which runs October 9 to December 20, showing your ticket from either exhibition takes ¥100 off the same-day price of the other. A used stub counts.
No free entry tier has been announced.
How to get there
The museum is on the 16th floor of Abeno Harukas, directly above Tennōji. It connects to the west gate at Kintetsu Ōsaka-Abenobashi, the central gate at JR Tennōji, the west gate of the Osaka Metro Midōsuji Line, the southwest and southeast gates of the Tanimachi Line, and the Hankai Uemachi Line stop at Tennōji-ekimae. There is no parking, so take the train.
If you are making a day of it, the Harukas 300 observatory is 44 floors further up the same building, and there is plenty more nearby in our guide to things to do in Osaka.
Note that dates, opening hours, and prices are subject to change, so make sure to check the official website before you go.
Organizers may cancel events, alter schedules, or change admission requirements without notice. Always check official sites before heading to an event.