Immersive Exhibitions at Art Museums and Museums: 2025–2026 Examples and Admission at the Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art and More

Art museums and museums continue to stage immersive video exhibitions inside their buildings. The Tokyo National Museum opened a high-definition video theater in its Honkan (Japanese Gallery) in 2025, and in 2026 set up an ultra-high-definition video corner within a special exhibition. At the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art and the Museum of Art, Ehime, immersive video spaces were included in ukiyo-e exhibitions, and two Hokkaido prefectural museums hosted touring teamLab exhibitions. This article sorts out the main examples from 2025–2026 in a consistent format: venue, whether it is part of a special exhibition or separately ticketed, and organizers and producers.

Original cultural properties are subject to rules on how many days they can be displayed and how bright the lighting can be. The Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Guidelines on the Public Display of National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties (revised June 16, 2023) set the display period, in principle, at no more than 60 days a year in total. For prints, it is no more than 30 days a year in total, with illuminance of 50 lux or less. Among the examples in this article, too, many combine ukiyo-e print exhibitions with video spaces or project high-resolution images on large screens.

The way video is presented is itself changing. The “TNM & TOPPAN Museum Theater,” on the basement level of the Tokyo National Museum’s Toyokan (Asian Gallery), ended operations on March 29, 2026. According to the museum, it was a VR theater that began operating in the Research and Information Center building in 2007 and reopened after renovation in the Toyokan in 2013. Since 2025, meanwhile, the museum has been holding events using video and light in Honkan galleries, special exhibition venues and its garden at night.

Main examples from 2025–2026 (by start date)

The examples covered in this article are listed in the order they began. The format of the display and how admission works are noted in parentheses.

• March 25 – August 3, 2025: “Immersive Theater: Neo Japonism” in Special Exhibition Room 5 of the Tokyo National Museum’s Honkan (stand-alone event, separate admission)

• April 25 – June 15, 2025: “KUNIYOSHI IMMERSIVE ART” in “Ukiyo-e Super Creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi” at the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (one of the exhibition’s displays)

• April 26, 2025 – March 16, 2026: “Ukiyo-e RE:BORN” in the 1F Grand Gallery of the Kadokawa Culture Museum (stand-alone event, separate admission)

• January 1 – March 29, 2026: the final program at the “TNM & TOPPAN Museum Theater” in the Tokyo National Museum’s Toyokan (admission per show; operations ended March 29)

• April 25 – November 23, 2026: “Galaxy Express 999 THE GALAXY EXPERIENCE” at the Kadokawa Culture Museum (stand-alone event, separate admission)

• July 11 – September 6, 2026: “Learn & Play! teamLab Future Park” at the Obihiro Museum of Art, Hokkaido (touring exhibition)

• July 18 – September 23, 2026: “KUNIYOSHI IMMERSIVE ART” in “Ukiyo-e Super Creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi” at the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art (one of the exhibition’s displays)

• July 25 – September 13, 2026: immersive display in the “New! Ukiyo-e Exhibition” at the Museum of Art, Ehime (part of the exhibition)

• July 25 – September 23, 2026: “Learn & Play! teamLab Future Park” at the Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido (touring exhibition)

• September 29 – December 20, 2026: ultra-high-definition video corner in the special exhibition “Utagawa Hiroshige: Edo’s Best Angles” at the Tokyo National Museum (within the special exhibition)

• October 14 – December 6, 2026: ZEN NIGHT TOKYO in the Tokyo National Museum garden (set ticket including special exhibition admission, or entry-only ticket)

• October 24, 2026 – March 31, 2027: “Impressionist Monet and Ukiyo-e” at THE MOVEUM YOKOHAMA (stand-alone screening; academic supervision support from the Pola Museum of Art)

• February 26 – April 2, 2027: high-resolution image projection in “Hokusai Red Fuji & Blue Wave: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” at the MOA Museum of Art (part of the exhibition; planned)

• March 20 – May 23, 2027: “New! Ukiyo-e Exhibition” at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (part of the exhibition; planned)

Shown as part of a special exhibition: Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Museum of Art, Ehime, the Tokyo National Museum and the MOA Museum of Art

The most common format among the examples in this article places a video space or corner inside the exhibition venue. Visitors see the video in the same venue as the original works.

“Ukiyo-e Super Creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi” (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art)

An exhibition bringing together about 200 works by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. At the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in 2025 and the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art in 2026, “KUNIYOSHI IMMERSIVE ART” was set up in the venue. Based on more than 50 of Kuniyoshi’s ukiyo-e prints, it creates a three-dimensional video space using 3DCG animation and projection mapping. The press materials explain that it is presented as one of the exhibition’s displays.

Format: One of the exhibition’s displays (no separate admission mentioned)
Venues and dates: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Friday, April 25 – Sunday, June 15, 2025); Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Main Building, North Wing 1F (Saturday, July 18 – Wednesday, September 23, 2026, national holiday)
Admission: Exhibition general same-day ticket ¥1,700 in Hokkaido, ¥1,900 in Kyoto
Organizers: Hokkaido: The Hokkaido Shimbun Press, NHK Sapporo Station; Kyoto: Kansai Television, The Sankei Shimbun, The Kyoto Shimbun, City of Kyoto
Planning cooperation: Art One

“New! Ukiyo-e Exhibition: Brilliant Artists of the Late Edo and Meiji Periods” (Museum of Art, Ehime; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art)

An exhibition that combines more than 120 ukiyo-e prints from the late Edo to the Meiji period with digital displays. The official website positions it as a “hybrid” exhibition pairing ukiyo-e prints with digital staging. In addition to an “immersive display” that draws visitors into the world of the works, there is “OMIOKURI Ukiyo-e,” in which ukiyo-e characters see visitors off. Interactive digital content is also provided. Following the Museum of Art, Ehime in summer 2026, it will be held at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in spring 2027. An overview of the Hyogo venue is reported in our article on the Hyogo venue of the “New! Ukiyo-e Exhibition”.

Format: Part of the exhibition (the Museum of Art, Ehime says digital content, including an immersive display, also features; no separate admission mentioned)
Venues and dates: Museum of Art, Ehime, Main Building 1F, Special Exhibition Rooms 1 and 2 (Saturday, July 25 – Sunday, September 13, 2026); Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (Saturday, March 20 – Sunday, May 23, 2027)
Admission: Ehime: general ¥1,700 (¥1,500 in advance); Hyogo: general same-day ¥1,800
Organizers: Ehime: New! Ukiyo-e Exhibition Ehime Executive Committee (Ehime Prefecture, The Ehime Shimbun), co-organized by Ehime CATV; Hyogo: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, The Yomiuri Shimbun
Planning cooperation: TOPPAN (as listed for the Hyogo venue)

Special exhibition “Utagawa Hiroshige: Edo’s Best Angles” (Tokyo National Museum)

A special exhibition commemorating the donation of the Susumu Uchiyama Collection, with an ultra-high-definition video corner set up in the venue. Large monitors show the colors of Hiroshige’s works. NHK and Tsutaya Juzaburo Shoten Co., Ltd. provide special cooperation, but the official page does not name the creator of the video. The museum’s displays using digital technology are also covered in our article on the digitization of cultural properties.

Format: A corner within the special exhibition venue
Venue: Tokyo National Museum, Honkan Room A
Dates: Tuesday, September 29 – Sunday, December 20, 2026
Admission: Special exhibition general ¥1,500 (¥1,300 in advance)
Organizer: Tokyo National Museum
Special cooperation: NHK; Tsutaya Juzaburo Shoten Co., Ltd.
Video production: Not stated on the official page

“Hokusai Red Fuji & Blue Wave: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” (MOA Museum of Art, 2027)

From February 26, 2027, the MOA Museum of Art in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, will hold an exhibition bringing together all 46 prints of “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.” Using digital material photographed as 150-megapixel high-resolution images, it will project “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” on a large screen. A display comparing the works with the places they depict, through video and images based on on-site research, is also planned.

Format: Part of the exhibition
Venue: MOA Museum of Art
Dates: Friday, February 26 – Friday, April 2, 2027
Admission: General ¥2,000 (per the museum’s visitor information; no separate admission for the exhibition mentioned)
Organizer and video production: Not stated on the exhibition page

Separately ticketed video exhibitions and theaters, and a garden at night: the Tokyo National Museum, the Kadokawa Culture Museum and THE MOVEUM

In other cases, video is presented as a stand-alone event with tickets sold separately from exhibitions—either by enveloping a large space in the museum in video or as a theater selling tickets per show. Permanent venues centered on video are introduced in our guide to immersive art venues.

“Immersive Theater: Neo Japonism – From Jomon to Ukiyo-e and on to Anime –” (Tokyo National Museum, 2025)

A theater in Special Exhibition Room 5 of the Honkan, using NHK’s high-definition video and technology. Centered on National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties in the museum’s collection, it traced the history of Japanese culture in video. The official page clearly stated that, as a video exhibition, no works were on display. Tickets also included admission to the TNM Collection exhibitions on the day of the visit.

Format: Stand-alone event (separate admission)
Venue: Tokyo National Museum, Honkan Special Exhibition Room 5
Dates: Tuesday, March 25 – Sunday, August 3, 2025
Admission: General ¥2,000 (¥1,800 in advance). TNM Collection exhibitions can also be viewed, on the same day only
Organizers: Tokyo National Museum, NHK, NHK Promotions
Video production: Not stated on the official page

“TNM & TOPPAN Museum Theater” (Tokyo National Museum; operations ended March 2026)

A theater on the basement level of the Toyokan that projected ultra-high-definition 4K video on a large screen in live VR performances guided by a navigator. Its final program, shown from January 1 to March 29, 2026, was the VR work “Scenes In and Around Kyoto: Funaki Screens.” TOPPAN says it will draw on the results of its work so far, including its digital content, to share Japanese art in Japan and abroad.

Format: Permanent theater (admission per show)
Venue: Tokyo National Museum, Toyokan basement level
Period: Began in the Research and Information Center building in 2007; reopened after renovation in the Toyokan in 2013; operations ended Sunday, March 29, 2026
Admission: Per show: high school students and older ¥600, elementary and junior high school students ¥300
Organizer and operator: Not stated on the official pages we checked (the name combines the Tokyo National Museum [TNM] and TOPPAN)

Kadokawa Culture Museum: “Ukiyo-e RE:BORN” and “Galaxy Express 999 THE GALAXY EXPERIENCE”

The Kadokawa Culture Museum in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, has continued to present video exhibitions in its 1F Grand Gallery. From April 2025 to March 2026, it held “Immersive Digital Art Theater: Ukiyo-e RE:BORN.” Using 33 high-brightness projectors, it created a space of more than 1,000 m². The subjects were ukiyo-e by Utamaro, Sharaku, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi, and Nobuhisa Kaneko, a curator at the Fuchu Art Museum, served as adviser.

The following “Galaxy Express 999 THE GALAXY EXPERIENCE” uses 32 4K laser projectors to show a roughly 30-minute video in a space of about 1,000 m². In the museum’s “Bookshelf Theater,” projection mapping is also shown on 8-meter-high bookshelves that surround visitors through 360 degrees.

Format: Stand-alone event (separate admission; a passport ticket that also covers the permanent exhibition areas is available)
Venue: Kadokawa Culture Museum, 1F Grand Gallery
Dates: Ukiyo-e RE:BORN: Saturday, April 26, 2025 – Monday, March 16, 2026; 999: Saturday, April 25 – Monday, November 23, 2026 (national holiday)
Admission: General (university students and older) ¥2,700 for each
Organizer: Kadokawa Culture Museum (Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation)
Video production: Ukiyo-e RE:BORN: design and creative direction by Gianfranco Iannuzzi, multimedia content production by KARMACHINA; 999: not stated on the official page or in the press materials

THE MOVEUM YOKOHAMA: “Impressionist Monet and Ukiyo-e”

In some cases, a museum is involved in supervising a video venue outside the museum. THE MOVEUM YOKOHAMA at Yamashita Pier in Yokohama is a “cultural and educational facility centered on art” organized by the Toyota Group. “Impressionist Monet and Ukiyo-e,” from October 24, is shown on a continuous loop of about 45 minutes in the roughly 1,800 m² THEATER, with the Pola Museum of Art cooperating on academic supervision. Design and creative direction are by Gianfranco Iannuzzi, as for “Ukiyo-e RE:BORN.”

Format: Stand-alone screening program (separate admission)
Venue: THE MOVEUM YOKOHAMA (THEATER)
Dates: Saturday, October 24, 2026 – Wednesday, March 31, 2027
Admission: General ¥3,000 (online price)
Organizer: Toyota Group
Production: Exhibition produced by TMONET; design and creative director Gianfranco Iannuzzi
Academic supervision cooperation: Pola Museum of Art

ZEN NIGHT TOKYO (Tokyo National Museum garden)

The Tokyo National Museum is opening its garden, which normally closes at 17:00, at night to coincide with the special exhibition marking the 700th anniversary of the temple’s founding, “Daitoku-ji: The Unrivaled Zen Temple of Japan.” It is the fourth edition of VIE’s nighttime event ZEN NIGHT and the first in Tokyo. The program includes a large-scale sea-of-clouds effect, autumn-leaf illumination and “walking zen” amid “neuro music.” There is also “brainwave zazen,” in which participants wear EEG headsets and see the state of their brains in sound and images. Details of the program are introduced in our article on ZEN NIGHT TOKYO.

Format: Nighttime event combined with a special exhibition
Venue: Tokyo National Museum garden
Dates: Wednesday, October 14 – Sunday, December 6, 2026
Admission: Same-day general ¥4,200 (including admission to the special exhibition “Daitoku-ji: The Unrivaled Zen Temple of Japan”). Holders of a Daitoku-ji exhibition ticket can buy an entry-only ticket for ¥1,900
Organizers: Tokyo National Museum, Nikkei Inc., VIE
Planning and production: Not stated in the press materials
Subsidy: Fiscal 2026 Japan Cultural Expo (Japan Arts Council / Agency for Cultural Affairs)

Touring exhibitions at public museums organized by broadcasters and newspapers: Hokkaido

Another format holds exhibitions centered on digital works and video spaces in the galleries of public art museums and museums. Local newspapers and broadcasters are among the organizers.

“Learn & Play! teamLab Future Park” (Obihiro Museum of Art, Hokkaido; Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido)

In summer 2026, teamLab’s “Learn & Play! Future Park” was held at two Hokkaido prefectural museums. In Obihiro, it was organized by the Tokachi Mainichi Shimbun, with special cooperation from STV Sapporo Television Broadcasting. In Hakodate, the organizers were HTB Hokkaido Television Broadcasting, The Hokkaido Shimbun Press, Doshin Cultural Enterprises and HTB Promotion. Both museums showed works including “Sketch Aquarium Connected to the World,” “Hopscotch for Geniuses” and “Sketch Factory.”

According to a September 4, 2023 announcement by Sapporo Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd., an exhibition in the same series held at the Sapporo Art Park Museum of Art in 2023 drew 153,735 visitors over 58 days, setting a new attendance record for the museum. The exhibition was titled “STV 65th Anniversary: Learn & Play! teamLab Future Park and Animals Living with Flowers.”

Format: Touring exhibition (the entire exhibition consists of digital works)
Venues and dates: Obihiro Museum of Art, Hokkaido (Saturday, July 11 – Sunday, September 6, 2026); Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Special Exhibition Room (Saturday, July 25 – Wednesday, September 23, 2026, national holiday)
Admission: Not stated on the official website’s venue pages
Organizers: Obihiro: Tokachi Mainichi Shimbun; Hakodate: HTB Hokkaido Television Broadcasting, The Hokkaido Shimbun Press, Doshin Cultural Enterprises, HTB Promotion
Special cooperation: Obihiro: STV Sapporo Television Broadcasting
Works: teamLab

Editor’s perspective

Admission falls broadly into three types. The first places video inside the exhibition venue: the Kuniyoshi exhibition, the “New! Ukiyo-e Exhibition,” the Hiroshige exhibition and the MOA Museum of Art fall into this group. The second sells separate tickets: the TNM theaters, the Kadokawa Culture Museum and THE MOVEUM. The third is a nighttime event packaged with a special exhibition, like ZEN NIGHT TOKYO. Whether you see video in the same venue as the original works or see video alone changes how the experience is structured. Before going, it is worth checking the organizer’s information on which ticket gets you in.

How organizers and producers are credited also varies. In the examples in this article, NHK, The Hokkaido Shimbun Press, Kansai Television, The Ehime Shimbun and others are among the organizers, as are the Tokachi Mainichi Shimbun, HTB Hokkaido Television Broadcasting, The Gifu Shimbun and Nikkei. Credits for who made the video, on the other hand, are inconsistent. “Ukiyo-e RE:BORN” and THE MOVEUM name the creators on their official pages, and the Hyogo venue of the “New! Ukiyo-e Exhibition” names its planning-cooperation company. The official pages for the TNM’s immersive theater and the video corner in the Hiroshige exhibition do not name a creator. In recording video exhibitions as part of museums’ work, how production credits are presented is one issue to consider.

At the Tokyo National Museum, the Museum Theater that had run since 2007 has closed, while limited-time video and staged events continue in its galleries and garden. In 2027, the MOA Museum of Art’s Hokusai exhibition and the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art’s “New! Ukiyo-e Exhibition” are slated to use video within the exhibitions. How far the approach of building a video space for each exhibition, without permanent equipment, will spread is something we will follow through each museum’s future announcements.

Frequently asked questions

What forms do immersive exhibits at art museums and museums take?

Broadly, there are two forms: video spaces set up as one part of a special exhibition, and standalone video exhibitions or theaters with separate admission. In Hokkaido, touring exhibitions organized by broadcasters and newspapers have also been held at public art museums.

Why are video-based exhibits increasing at museums?

Original cultural properties are subject to display rules. The Agency for Cultural Affairs’ guidelines on exhibiting National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties set the display period at, in principle, no more than 60 days in total per year (30 days for prints) and illuminance at 50 lux or less. Many examples combine ukiyo-e print exhibitions with video spaces or show high-resolution images on large screens.

What are some examples?

They include the Tokyo National Museum’s “Immersive Theater: Neo-Japonisme” (2025), “KUNIYOSHI IMMERSIVE ART” at the Utagawa Kuniyoshi exhibitions at the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art and the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, and “Ukiyoe RE:BORN” at the Kadokawa Culture Museum.

Data sources and methodology

• Dates, venues, admission, organizers and production credits follow each museum’s or organizer’s official pages and press materials (checked October 22, 2026). Items not given on the official pages are marked “not stated.”

• Tokyo National Museum: the Immersive Theater: Neo Japonism page, the Utagawa Hiroshige: Edo’s Best Angles page and the notice of the end of Museum Theater operations. Theater admission is from TOPPAN’s official website. None gives attendance or the number of shows.

• ZEN NIGHT TOKYO: VIE Inc.’s press materials (September 15, 2026) and the official website.

• KUNIYOSHI IMMERSIVE ART: HITOHATA, INC.’s press materials (February 13, 2025; June 17, 2026; July 18, 2026), the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art’s exhibition page and Kansai Television’s exhibition page. No attendance figures given.

• New! Ukiyo-e Exhibition: the exhibition’s official website and the Museum of Art, Ehime page. No attendance figures for the exhibition given.

• MOA Museum of Art: the exhibition page and visitor information. “150 megapixels” is the museum’s own description.

• Kadokawa Culture Museum: the Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation’s press materials (September 14, 2026) and the museum’s official pages. The number of projectors and floor area are as published by the organizer.

• teamLab “Learn & Play! Future Park”: the venues page on the official website. No attendance figures for Obihiro or Hakodate. The 153,735 visitors at the Sapporo Art Park Museum of Art are from Sapporo Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd.’s announcement (September 4, 2023, PR TIMES); the same information appears on the press coverage page of teamLab’s official website. It covers the 58 days from July 8 to September 3, 2023, with no counting method stated.

• THE MOVEUM YOKOHAMA: the program page and the facility introduction page.

• Ukiyo-e Immersive Art Exhibition GIFU: the exhibition’s official website.

• Display standards: Agency for Cultural Affairs, “Guidelines on the Public Display of National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties” (decided by the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs on July 12, 1996; revised June 16, 2023).

• We do not rank figures published by different sources.

Articles organized by each stage of planning are gathered in our guide for those planning projection mapping and light events.

The practicalities of attracting and hosting touring immersive exhibitions are covered in our guide to attracting and hosting touring immersive exhibitions.

*Information as of October 22, 2026. Please check the official website for the latest information.

*Top image: Exterior of the Kadokawa Culture Museum ©Kadokawa Culture Museum (from the Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation’s press release)

*This article was compiled by the TOKYO ART SPHERE editorial team based on official announcements and public materials from each agency and organizer (as of October 22, 2026).

Text: TOKYO ART SPHERE Editorial Team

A note from the publisher

*Disclosure: Among the examples introduced in this article, “KUNIYOSHI IMMERSIVE ART” and the Ukiyo-e Immersive Art Exhibition GIFU are produced and planned by HITOHATA, INC., an affiliate of HITOHATA ASSOCIATION, the general incorporated association that operates TOKYO ART SPHERE (About us).

Ukiyo-e Immersive Art Exhibition GIFU (Gifu City Museum of History)

Opening on November 6 at the Gifu City Museum of History. The exhibition turns more than 300 works by ukiyo-e artists into three-dimensional video spaces using 3DCG animation and projection mapping, and also displays ukiyo-e printed in the Edo period alongside reproductions. Details are introduced in our article on the Gifu exhibition.

Format: Touring exhibition (consisting of video spaces and a display of ukiyo-e)
Venue: Gifu City Museum of History, 1F Special Exhibition Room
Dates: Friday, November 6, 2026 – Monday, January 11, 2027 (national holiday)
Admission: Adults (high school students and older) ¥1,500 on the day, ¥1,300 in advance
Organizer: Ukiyo-e Immersive Art Exhibition GIFU Executive Committee

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