This exhibition will be an invitation to travel through space and time to the heart of a Japan that has left the imprint of its history on three emblematic places: Kyoto, Tokyo and between the two the historic Tokaido, the road linking old and new capitals.
Through Kyoto the exhibition will spotlight the wealth of history and beating heart of Japan's classical civilisation while in Tokyo the focus is on modern times, contemporary creativity and the lure of the future.
The exhibition will emphasise the links between the traditional culture that has its roots in 8th-century Kyoto and the artistic forms of expression found in modern-day Japan. It will enthral both those fond of traditional Japanese culture and the generation that has grown up with the fictional worlds of mangas, animated films and hi-tech phenomena, the descendants of that ancient culture.

Hours:Open every day from 10am to 8pm (except closing day, Tuesday August 10). Evenings : Thursdays until 10 pm

Full price entrance fee: 12 € Reduced fee:Groups (+ ten people) = 10 €. Students (-25 years on presentation of card) =8 €. Children (up to 11 years) =free

Audio guide in French/English/Italian.  Price: 6 € per person.

Combined ticket = 14€to include the exhibition«Looking up…™ Yinka Shonibare, MBE» From July 14 to August 31 2010 at the Sauber Villa (in front of the Grimaldi Forum), the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco invites a contemporary artist to look differently on the Museum collections. Yinka Shonibare, MBE is the first artist invited.

Combined ticket= 15€ to include the exhibition« Leonard de Vinci »

From September 1^st to September 12^th. This exhibition is organized by the Dante Alighieri Monaco association and the Monaco Italie association, and presents an important selection of original writings and drawings from the first edition of the Codex Atlanticus coming from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

Catalogue for the exhibition (Publication date July 2010)

One bilingual publication (French & English)

Format 17 x 24 cm, 510 pages

About 400 color illustrations

A co-edition Grimaldi Forum Monaco and Editions Xavier BARRAL

Retail price: 39 Euros tax included

 Contacts for the exhibition:

Hervé ZorgniottiTelephone: 00-377-99-99-25-02 hzorgniotti@grimaldiforum.mc

Nathalie Varley   Telephone: 00-377-99-99-25-03 nvarley@grimaldiforum.mc

The exhibition “Kyoto-Tokyo, from Samurais to Mangas“  is produced by the Grimaldi Forum Monaco.

Curator : Jean-Paul DESCROCHES

Co-Curator : Hiromu OZAWA

Scientific committee : Julien BASTIDE, Hélène BAYOU, Jérôme GHESQUIERE, Greg IRVINE, Thierry JOUSSE, Brigitte KOYAMA-RICHARD, Fabrizio MODINA, Jean-Baptiste CLAIS.

Scenography : Bruno MOINARD