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IMT Special Exhibition “The Face of Medicine”

November 11, 2016

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Type Exhibition
Intended for General public / Enrolled students / Applying students / International students / Alumni / Companies / Elementary school students / Junior high school students / High school students / University students
Date(s) December 3, 2016 — April 1, 2021
Location Other campuses/off-campus
Venue Intermediatheque 3F [MODULE]
[Address]KITTE 2-3F, 2-7-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN
[Access]JR lines and Tokyo Metro Marunouchi line Tokyo Station. Direct access from the Marunouchi Underground Pathway.
[Opening Hours]11:00 - 18:00 (Open until 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays) Last admission 30 minutes before closing.
*Opening hours may change.
[Closed on]Mondays (or the following Tuesday if Monday is a National Holiday) and Year-end holidays. May close irregularly.


The Intermediatheque (IMT) reopened on June 24. To prevent the further spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), please read the following guidelines before visiting the museum.
 [1] Please wear a mask, cover your cough, wash your hands and use hand sanitizer when visiting IMT.
 [2] Before entering the museum, we will check your body temperature. If your temperature is found to be over 37.5℃, we may refuse admission.
 [3] If you have visited a country or region where the infection has continued to spread in the last 2 weeks, please refrain from visiting IMT.
 [4] Please keep a safe distance of 2 meters from other visitors in the museum.
 [5] Please do not speak in a loud voice in order to prevent an airborne infection.
 [6] Please refrain from touching the exhibits, display cases, walls and any equipment bearing the sign “Do not use.”
 [7] Entrance restrictions may apply depending on the number of visitors.
 [8] Any group of 10 people or more may be refused admission.
 Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
Entrance Fee No charge
Registration Method No advance registration required
Contact +81-47-316-2772 / From Japan: 050-5541-8600 (NTT Hello Dial Service)
The exhibition end date listed above is tentative.

In the summer of last year, forty-four portrait paintings and eight statues were transferred from the University of Tokyo Hospital to the University Museum. The collection of portrait paintings hung on the large wall behind the stage of the Hospital’s Auditorium of Internal Medicine. There, the portraits of the successive Hospital Directors aligned on five levels formed an impressive panorama expressing the authority of medicine and the history of education. Because it was kept on elevated parts of the auditorium space, the collection remained untouched and well-preserved for a long period of time. This environment allowed us to perfectly trace the genealogy of the hospital directors. Such a mode of existence for a heritage composed of official portraits can be said to be particularly rare. Immediately, the University Museum started cleaning the portraits and restoring their surfaces. Although the restoration is still in progress, we are now presenting, with the cooperation of restorer Fujiko Suzukamo, the first results of our work to the general public. Until now, there had been no opportunity to take a close look at the portraits and notice the differences between those that are collotype prints and those that are oil paintings. We thus hope you appreciate the majestic appearance of physicians from the Meiji era.

[Organizer] The University Museum, the University of Tokyo (UMUT)

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