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Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens

4000 Morikami Park Rd. Delray Beach, FL 33446United States

May 2018

Sushi & Stroll

May 11, 2018 @ 5:30 pm - May 12, 2018 @ 8:30 pm
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd. Delray Beach, FL 33446United States

The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens’ popular Sushi & Stroll Summer Walks series returns May 11. On select evening through September, the Morikami will welcome visitors into its tranquil gardens to sample craft sakes paired with Pan-Asian cuisine from the onsite Cornell Café and visiting food trucks. Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for children, and free for museum members and children younger than 3. For an additional $3, attendees can also watch taiko drum performances scheduled for 6:30, 7:15,…

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April 2019

Hatsume Fair: A One-of-a-Kind Celebration of Spring

April 6, 2019 @ 10:00 am - April 7, 2019 @ 5:00 pm
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One event on April 6, 2019 at 10:00 am

One event on April 7, 2019 at 10:00 am

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd. Delray Beach, FL 33446United States + Google Map
$7 – $20

Come celebrate the 40th annual Hatsume Fair at Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens! Commemorating the first bud of spring, Hatsume, the Morikami’s largest annual event, transforms the verdant property into a unique Japanese spring festival. Multiple stages of continuous entertainment are featured, including taiko drumming performances, martial arts and bonsai demonstrations, live art painting, a costume contest, a fashion show contest, and much more. Avenues of artisan booths, anime dealers, plant sellers, food vendors, Japanese beer garden, sake station, and…

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May 2019

Falling Water, Soaring Kites exhibit at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens

May 4, 2019 @ 10:00 am - August 11, 2019 @ 5:00 pm
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd. Delray Beach, FL 33446United States + Google Map
$9 – $15

In its new summer exhibit, Falling Water, Soaring Kites, the Morikami Museum explores the idea of transformative experiences by highlighting two aspects of Japanese culture that have inspired devotion to ritual, profound poetry, and sublime paintings since the tenth century: the veneration of waterfalls and the art of the humble kite. These seemingly disparate phenomena are actually connected through deeply felt belief systems that include a world of animate and inanimate objects inhabited by the gods. To stand in awe…

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Mother’s Day feasting at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens

May 12, 2019 @ 10:30 am - 4:00 pm
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd. Delray Beach, FL 33446United States + Google Map

On Mother's Day, May 12, treat your favorite haha (“mother” in Japanese) to an Asian-infused feast at the Morikami Museum’s Cornell Café with spectacular vistas of the Japanese gardens beyond. Kanpai! Cornell Café’ raises a glass to gracious holiday dining with selections that pay homage to traditional Japanese flavors and masterful technique. A three-course prix fixe menu ($24.95 per person) kicks off with a choice of an appetizer or a cocktail, such as a wakami salad with seaweed, sesame seeds,…

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June 2019

Youth Music and Culture Summer Camp at Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens

June 24, 2019 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
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An event every day that begins at 9:00 am, repeating until June 28, 2019

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd. Delray Beach, FL 33446United States + Google Map
$250

Kids who are passionate about music and enjoy cultural pursuits will march to the beat of their own drum this summer at the award-winning Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens. Starting Monday, June 24 through Friday, June 28, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens will transform into a virtual playground of incredible sights and sounds upon the return of its Youth Music and Culture Summer Camp. The immersive, five-day camp is open to students in…

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November 2019

Anime Architecture exhibit

November 9, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until April 3, 2020

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd. Delray Beach, FL 33446United States + Google Map
$6 – $18

Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach, Florida is pleased to announce it will be the sole U.S. stop for Anime  Architecture, a new exhibition  of architectural backdrops from classic sci-fi anime films. From location photographs and concept sketches as detailed pencil drawings, through to final expressions as cells in full color, Anime Architecture  reveals the creative processes behind Japan’s ultramodern animated films. On display  November 9, 2019 through April 3, 2020,  Anime Architecture will feature over 100 technical drawings and…

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January 2020

Oshogatsu Festival

January 12, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd. Delray Beach, FL 33446United States + Google Map
$10 – $20

Join the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens as it celebrates Oshogatsu (The New Year)—Japan’s most important holiday—Sunday, January 12. Savor Japanese food and drink, play games, and watch traditional performances, all amongst the magnificent gardens. The festival will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets cost $10-$20 and are free for members and children younger than 3.

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March 2020

Talk and Live Demo with Artist Mitsuhiro Arita

March 15, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd. Delray Beach, FL 33446United States + Google Map
Free with paid museum admission
Talk and Live Demo with Artist Mitsuhiro Arita

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens is pleased to welcome renowned illustrator Mitsuhiro Arita who will discuss the importance of bringing characters to life through the practical use of background art. Guests and fans of the anime and manga genres will have a unique chance to meet the artist behind the world-famous Pokémon characters and enjoy an interactive Q&A session and live drawing demonstration. A complimentary autograph session will follow (please limit one item per person). Arita cannot draw Pokémon characters…

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April 2020

Hatsume Fair: A One-of-a-Kind Celebration of Spring

April 4, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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An event every day that begins at 10:00 am, repeating until April 5, 2020

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd. Delray Beach, FL 33446United States + Google Map
$3 – $20

The 41st annual Hatsume Fair at Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens promises to be a spectacular event for the entire family! Celebrating the first bud of spring, Hatsume, the museum's largest annual event, transforms Morikami Park into a unique Japanese spring festival. The fair will feature two days of continuous entertainment including taiko drumming performances, martial art demonstrations, a costume contest and fashion show, plus much more. Avenues of artisan booths, anime dealers, unique plants, food vendors, the Japanese Beer…

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April 2021

“Carving the Divine: Buddhist Sculptors of Japan” film screening with Director Yujiro Seki

April 9, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd. Delray Beach, FL 33446United States + Google Map
$10
Buddhist Sculptors of Japan

The award-winning documentary, Carving the Divine offers a rare and intimate look into the life and artistic process of modern-day Busshi – practitioners of a 1400 year old lineage of Buddhist woodcarving. Master Koun Seki takes the viewer on a trip through a guild culture unlike anything existing today in the West - from the growing pains of a novice apprentice, to the entire guild working together as one body to create breathtaking works of art. Grand Master Saito himself…

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May 2021

Painting Enlightenment: Experiencing Wisdom and Compassion through Art and Science Exhibit

May 8, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until September 19, 2021

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd. Delray Beach, FL 33446United States + Google Map
$9 – $15
Painting Enlightenment

Morikami presents Painting Enlightenment: Experiencing Wisdom and Compassion through Art and Science, a new exhibition featuring the indelible works of famed Japanese scientist and artist Iwasaki Tsuneo (1917-2002). The paintings create a contemplative journey and meditations on the interconnectedness of the universe. Iwasaki collapses distinctions between image, text and thought with imagery representative of both scientific phenomena and Buddhist principles. He forms the images by using characters from the sacred Buddhist text, the Heart Sutra. Upon retiring from a career…

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June 2021

“Blade of the Immortal” Film Screening at Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens

June 12, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 1:20 pm
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One event on June 12, 2021 at 2:00 pm

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd. Delray Beach, FL 33446United States + Google Map
$5

Step back in time to feudal Japan and follow along with Samurai Manji, a highly skilled assasin (Takuya Kimura) who is cursed with immortality until he can kill enough evil men. After he swears loyalty to a young woman (Hana Sugisaki) and becomes her bodyguard, the unlikely pair set off on an epic quest of redemption, filled with fantastic sword fights and epic battles, that leads to the ultimate showdown between good versus evil.

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July 2021

Bridge to the Cosmos – Big Bang (the Painting and the Theory) Explained – Live Virtual Lecture by Dr. Ata Sarajedini

July 7, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd. Delray Beach, FL 33446United States + Google Map
Free with paid museum admission
Bridge to the Cosmos

Morikami Museum’s Curator of Japanese Art, Carla Stansifer, will co-host an interactive live virtual lecture with Dr. Ata Sarajedini, an award-winning astrophysicist and professor of astrophysics from Florida Atlantic University. In conjunction with the museum’s latest exhibition, Painting Enlightenment: Experiencing Wisdom and Compassion through Art and Science, Dr. Sarajedini will explain the scientific perspective of the solo artist in the exhibition, Japanese painter Iwasaki Tsuneo (1917-2002). Iwasaki was a biologist by trade and brought his unique experiences and systematic perspective…

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September 2021

Painting Enlightenment: Experiencing Wisdom and Compassion through Art and Science Exhibit

September 20, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until March 27, 2022

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Rd. Delray Beach, FL 33446United States + Google Map
Free with paid museum admission
Painting Enlightenment

Morikami presents Painting Enlightenment: Experiencing Wisdom and Compassion through Art and Science, a new exhibition featuring the indelible works of famed Japanese scientist and artist Iwasaki Tsuneo (1917-2002). The paintings create a contemplative journey and meditations on the interconnectedness of the universe. Iwasaki collapses distinctions between image, text and thought with imagery representative of both scientific phenomena and Buddhist principles. He forms the images by using characters from the sacred Buddhist text, the Heart Sutra. Upon retiring from a career…

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