Expo 2025: A special exhibition dedicated to the works of the Italian Pavilion at the Osaka Municipal Museum

The Osaka Museum of Fine Arts inaugurates the exhibition “Atlante Farnese and the Treasures of the Italy Pavilion from Expo 2025 Osaka.” Organized with the support of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, the exhibition retraces the success of the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka by showcasing its most precious treasures: the Farnese Atlas, Perugino’s Gonfalone della Giustizia (Gonfalon of Justice), and two new sheets from Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus. A success with the public is already assured: all available reservations sold out in just a few hours. This success is similar to that of the Italian Pavilion, and Italy is the only nation to continue its strategic promotion of Italian culture and innovation with an exhibition at Osaka’s main municipal museum. “We have kept the promise that the Minister Alessandro Giuli had done on the occasion of our National Day last September 12th. With this exhibition Italy continues to be a protagonist in Japan even after the official closing of Expo 2025 Osaka”, declared the General Commissioner for Italy at Expo 2025 Osaka, Ambassador Mario Vattani”Not only with our works, but also with the immersive installations that showcase our advanced aerospace and underwater technology, all at the expense of Japanese sponsors. Today, this public success adds to the first prize awarded to us by the BIE, and the exhibition at the Osaka Museum of Fine Arts, which will conclude in 2026, also becomes the opening event of the celebrations for the 160th anniversary of relations between Italy and Japan. We are leaving a profound mark, demonstrating that Italy is a reliable partner, capable of combining the beauty of art with exceptional technological and innovative capacity.”

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The exhibition, organized with the support of the Ministry of Culture, the Italian Embassy in Tokyo, the Italian Consulate in Japan and the Italian Cultural Institute in Osaka, symbolically opens the celebrations for the 160th anniversary of Italy-Japan Relations, scheduled for 2026. The press conference was attended by the main institutional officials of the Kansai Prefecture, the city of Osaka and the Expo Institutions, the Italian Ambassador to Japan, Gianluigi Benedetti and the director of the Veneranda Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Monsignor RoccaIn recent days, the Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, commented: “In the wake of the Expo, we want to inaugurate the 160th year of our bilateral relations by extending the Farnese Atlas’s presence here in Japan. The Farnese Atlas, but not only that, will be the entrance ticket, the manifesto for the 160th year of relations between Italy and Japan, which will then be enriched by other celebrations. The Italian Ministry of Culture has been asked to extend the Atlas’s presence, and so it will be. Other works of art and other forms of Italian culture similar and in tune with the Japanese world will arrive, such as those relating to the culture and care of flowers.” Over 122 Japanese and international media outlets attended the conference, covering the event. The exhibition will remain open until January 12, 2026.