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Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum is taking part in ‘Museum Rally 2026’, a Tokyo-wide puzzle event that links nine museums through an art-and-riddle experience organized with Tokyo Metro and participating national and metropolitan institutions. The campaign invites visitors to move between venues, solve nine clues, and progress through a story while viewing artworks along the way.
According to the event site, ‘Museum Rally 2026’ is presented as an “art x puzzle-solving entertainment” program across nine museums in Tokyo. Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum appears on the list of participating venues alongside Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of Western Art, the National Art Center, Tokyo, the Edo-Tokyo Museum, the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, and the Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery. Tokyo Metro is also included as part of the venue list and the broader route.
The rally is structured so that participants can begin at any of the listed museums and continue at their own pace. After registering on the event site, visitors select a museum, answer the puzzle linked to that venue, and receive a digital stamp when they answer correctly. The site says it is not necessary to complete all the challenges in a single day, and that progress is saved online. Participants are advised to keep notes of their answers, since completed answers cannot be reviewed later.
The event site also outlines a prize system tied to completion. Those who solve five puzzles can apply for the ‘5 Museum Achievement Prize’, while those who solve all nine can unlock an epilogue and attempt the final puzzle for the ‘All Questions Achievement Prize’. The listed prizes include museum-original goods and, in some categories, pair tickets and Metro goods. The site notes that the rally itself is free to join, though participants are responsible for transport and museum admission fees.
Several museums on the route have scheduled closures or exhibition-change periods during the rally, and the event page gives alternate poster locations at nearby Tokyo Metro stations for those dates. For Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, the museum is listed among the participating institutions without a separate substitute-poster notice on the page excerpt provided. The event materials also remind visitors that station staff and museum staff do not know the answers to the puzzles.
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum’s social media post announces that the museum is participating in the 2026 edition and directs users to the official rally website. The event site states that the rally began on July 23, 2026, following an announcement on July 15, 2026, and that the program continues with the same content throughout the run.
