Celebrate the opening of Samurai: Armor from the Collection of Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller. Members enjoy exclusive after-hours access to the exhibition, live music, special activities, and a cash bar.
On view at the High through September 17, this exhibition will feature one of the most important collections of samurai armor outside of Japan. Through a dazzling array of more than one hundred fifty helmets, swords, and other objects spanning almost nine centuries, including nearly twenty complete sets of armor, the exhibition will illuminate the exceptionally high level of design and craft dedicated to these elaborate instruments of ceremony and combat and reveal the culture, lifestyle, and artistic legacy associated with the samurai warrior in Japanese society.