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Japanese Buddhist Temple Room Celebration
May 11, 2024
11:00 am–2:00 pm
This program is scheduled to be an in-person event, however details may be subject to change.
Eligibility: Curators Circles: Gingko Society members
Join us for a special celebration of the MFA’s newly renovated Japanese Buddhist Temple Room. A delegation of monks from Miidera, one of Japan’s…
The Walter Ames Compton, MD Gallery (Gallery 280) was transformed into a public conservation studio in the fall of 2018, to allow treatment of the…
After a multi-year conservation campaign, the seven sculptures from the Japanese Buddhist Temple Room are back on display. Dating from the Heian…
A delegation of monks from Miidera, one of Japan’s largest temples, conducts a ritual to rededicate the MFA’s Japanese Buddhist Temple Room and to…
Conservation in Action: Japanese Buddhist Sculptures, Introduction
The Temple Room, one of the most beloved spaces in the MFA, was designed in 1909 to evoke the contemplative atmosphere of a Buddhist temple. Until…
Conservation Up Close: Japanese Buddhist Sculpture
Multiple dates and times
Come visit with the MFA conservators treating seven Heian period (9th–12th century) sculptures from the Japanese Buddhist Temple Room gallery, part of…
Conservation in Action: Japanese Buddhist Sculptures, September 2023
The conservation studio set up in the Walter Ames Compton, MD Gallery (Gallery 280) closed to the pubic in December 2022, dismantled to make way for a…
Conservation in Action: Japanese Buddhist Sculptures, April 2022
Treatment of two more sculptures, Amida, the Buddha of Infinite Light and the elaborate Dainichi, the Buddha of Infinite Illumination with mandorla…
Conservation in Action: Japanese Buddhist Sculpture in a New Light
December 15, 2018–December 31, 2022
A rare, behind-the-scenes look at the conservation of seven Buddhist sculptures
Conservation in Action: Japanese Buddhist Sculptures, March 2020
The gilded Dainichi, the Buddha of Infinite Illumination was the last of the sculptures to be deinstalled from the Temple Room, now closed in…