Traveling Exhibits
Jump to Japan:Discovering Culture through Popular Art
This exhibition invites visitors to discover aspects of Japanese culture and popular art. It specifically highlights the link between animation, manga, woodblock prints, and ancient scrolls, all examples of popular art in their time. The exhibit features the work of; Hayao Miyazaki, and his animation film, My Neighbor Totoro, specific manga artists and their graphic novels, and wood block prints from a Child’s Book of Play and the scrolls of 12th century artist-priest Toba.
This is one of seven traveling exhibits developed as part of Go East: The Freeman Foundation Asian Exhibit Initiative admin-
istered by the Association of Children’s
Museums. It was produced as a collaboration
between Minnesota Children’s Museum and
The Children’s Museum, Seattle.
Minnesota Children’s Museum and The Children’s Museum, Seattle: Jan. 2004, traveling until 2006
Concept Development: MCM staff and Charlotte Beall (while staff at TCM)
Exhibit Design: Larry Ackerley (while staff at MCM)
See more:
The Children's Museum (Seattle)
Minnesota Children's Museum
Ghibli Museum