TBIH2020: Chihiro Art Museum

Michiko Matsukata talks to our Jury Member Carina Jaatinen about the Chihiro Art Museum, considered to be the world’s first art museum dedicated to picture books. The museum won the Japanese Museums Association Award in 2019.

The Chihiro Art Museum was established in 1977 to commemorate Chihiro Iwasaki (1918-1974), a Japanese artist renowned for her paintings and illustrations which appeared in picture books, illustrated magazines, and textbooks. Currently, the Museum’s collection consists of nearly 27,200 pieces created by 207 artists from 34 countries and regions. The two museums in Tokyo and in Nagano prefecture are operated by the Chihiro Iwasaki Memorial Foundation with the mission to bring “peace and happiness to the children” and facilitate the “development of picture book culture”.

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