MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2016



MFA Japanese Art Tour

Hiromu Nagahara

Jan/28 Thu 01:00PM-02:30PM Museum of Fine Arts, Bring your MIT ID Card

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/10
Limited to 15 participants

Did you know that Boston is home to the largest collection of Japanese art outside of Japan? Join MIT Japan historian, Hiromu Nagahara, on a tour of the fascinating collection at MFA, including famous woodblock prints, Buddhist sculptures, and samurai swords. The tour will include a discussion of the artworks' significance as well as how they got to Boston in the first place.  *Meet at 1pm inside MFA's Huntington Ave. entrance. 
Students with MIT ID get in museum for free. 

Sponsor(s): History
Contact: Hiromu Nagahara, E51-255G, (617) 324-4977, nagahara@mit.edu