Abeno Harukas Art Museum (あべのハルカス美術館, Abeno Harukasu Bijutsukan) opened in Abeno-ku, Ōsaka, Japan, in 2014. Specializing in temporary exhibitions, it is located on the 16th floor of Abeno Harukas, Japan's tallest building, named after the ward of Abeno and the expression harukasu (晴るかす), meaning 'brightening up'. The Museum's inaugural director is art historian Asano Shūgō (浅野秀剛), director of Kintetsu Railway Company's other cultural initiative, the Yamato Bunkakan.
Exhibitions have had as their subject:
2014: Tōdai-ji; Collection of Museo Poldi Pezzoli; Dufy;
Neo-impressionism
2015: Treasures from Mount Kōya; Kawakita Handeishi (川喜田半泥子); Treasures from
Kotohira-gū; Tove Jansson; Ukiyo-e from the Philadelphia Museum of
Art; Museum of Magic
2016: Museum of Magic; Treasures from Hase-dera; Picasso; Star
Wars; Yōkai; Munakata Shikō
2017: Munakata Shikō; Renoir; Matisse and Roualt; Kitano Tsunetomi
(北野恒富); Treasures from
Saidai-ji; Hokusai (with the British Museum); Studio Ghibli
2018: Studio Ghibli; Tōgō Seiji; Works by Harunobu from the Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston; Learn and Play!; Tower of the Sun; Works by
M. C. Escher from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2019: Works by M. C. Escher from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem;
Japanese crafts from the Meiji period to today; Winnie the Pooh;
Gustave Moreau; The Pre-Raphaelites; Caravaggio
2020: Caravaggio; Treasures from Yakushi-ji; Anno Mitsumasa