Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on August 2012

The Suntory Museum of Art has one of the nation’s best collections, but usually its scrolls, screens, and lacquerware are carefully stowed inside glass cases. Timed to coincide with summer vacation, “A Wonderland of Japanese Art” utilizes digital and analog technologies to bring its masterpieces to life. Dancers depicted on a scroll begin to move; a gorgeous screen is recreated as a digital touch display that allows one to examine it in amazing detail—it’s all the result of a collaboration with the Louvre-Dai Nippon Printing Museum Lab.

Suntory Museum of Art, Aug 8-Sep 2 (listing).