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Showa 100th: How Conservation and Restoration Evolved at the NMWA during the Showa Period

National Museum of Western Art · Tokyo, Japan · 30 Jun 2026 to 11 Jan 2027

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A display on conservation and restoration practice at the museum from its 1959 founding through 1989, marking the Showa era centenary, illustrated with treatment records for Van Gogh's Roses and Renoir's Woman with a Hat.

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