The Tokyo Fuji Art Museum commemorated International Museum Day on May 18 by holding a special Gallery Talk on the museum’s main exhibition, “The Illustrated Books of Leonard Foujita,” for parents and their children. The theme of this hour-long Gallery Talk, in which a TFAM curator conducts in an interactive guide to an exhibition’s artworks, was “Find the Felines.” Born in Japan, Foujita (1886-1968) lived in Paris, France for an extended period and was renowned for his illustrations of beautiful women and cats.
International Museum Day is organized by the International Council of Museums (ICOM), a global network of museums and museum professionals that was founded in 1946. Some 20,000 museums, including TFAM, are institutional members of ICOM.
