The Tragedy of Loosdorf Castle: The Destruction and Rebirth of Exported Old-Imari

Okura Shukokan Museum of Fine Arts

This event has ended.

*Okura Museum of Art re-opened its facility and exhibitions from February 20 with sufficient preventive measures based on safeguarding guidelines to prevent the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
*The exhibition period has been shortened. (Originally 2020/11/3–2021/1/24).

Loosdorf Castle outside of Vienna was once decorated with Japanese Old-Imari ceramics, but much of the collection was destroyed in WWII. This exhibition publicly displays for the first time works from The Kyushu Ceramic Museum along with pieces of broken items from the Loosdorf Castle collection and works repaired using Japanese technologies.