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PSP Members-Only Stroller Tour of the Brooklyn Museum @ 10:00am

Utagawa Hiroshige. Kiyomizu Hall and Shinobazu Pond at Ueno (Ueno Kiyomizudō no ike), no. 11 from 100 Famous Views of Edo, 4th month of 1856. Woodblock print. Brooklyn Museum; Gift of Anna Ferris, 30.1478.11. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Join other PSP parents for a Stroller Tour of Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami)

Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami)

What are the must-see locations in your favorite city? Where do you go when you need a breath of fresh air? What makes certain neighborhoods famous? Join an artist-insider on a tour of nineteenth-century Tokyo (then known as Edo), from lumberyards to destination restaurants, and see if his choices illuminate your own relationship with the cities you know well.

For the first time in twenty-four years, Utagawa Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo—one of the Brooklyn Museum’s greatest treasures—returns to public display. The Museum’s complete set of these celebrated prints is among the world’s finest, full of vibrant colors preserved by decades in the dark.

While most presentations have centered on the prints’ technical sophistication and influence on European artists, here we focus on their urban subject matter. Originally published in 1856–58, the series captures the evolving socioeconomic and environmental landscape of the city that would become Tokyo. Through both the prints and complementary objects drawn from the Museum’s collection, you’ll be immersed in mid-nineteenth-century Edo and see it through the eyes of the ordinary people who populate Hiroshige’s settings. You’ll encounter all four seasons in scenes of picnics beneath cherry blossoms, summer rainstorms, falling maple leaves, and wintry dusks. The exhibition also includes modern photographs to show how Hiroshige’s scenes morphed into today’s Tokyo.

Artist Takashi Murakami (born Tokyo, Japan, 1962) takes Hiroshige’s views into a more fantastical realm with a set of his own paintings. Created in direct response to 100 Famous Views of Edo, these works invite us to reconsider Hiroshige’s world and his contributions to global art history.

Details:

Time: 10:00am - 11:15am
Cost:
Brooklyn Museum Members: $28 for one adult and one child*
Brooklyn Museum Non-Members: $32 for one adult and one child*

*One child per adult. If you'd like to purchase additional adult tickets, tickets, please reach out to youth.family@brooklynmuseum.org.

Space is limited to 12 families, with one child per adult.

You must register for the tour. The SIGN UP HERE button will take you to the Brooklyn Museum's ticket sales page.

**Please read your confirmation email, which will tell you where to enter the museum and where to meet for the Tour.

Please note: masks are optional during your visit.
Tickets are nonrefundable and include General Admission, but can be exchanged once up to 72 hours prior to the ticket date with no fees by emailing tickets@brooklynmuseum.org or calling 718.501.6484 with your name and newly desired date. Exchange is based on availability.

When:

Friday, July 12, 2024, 10:00 AM until 11:15 AM

Where:

Brooklyn Museum
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238

Event Contact(s):

PSP Events Coordinator

Category:

Specialty Groups

Registration is required

Payment In Full In Advance Only