Nintendo Museum's Mario and Luigi Folding Screen Display Ends March 23

The Mario & Luigi Byōbu folding screen, a 2015 painting commissioned to mark Super Mario's 30th anniversary, has six days left on display at the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto before its run concludes on March 23, according to Nintendo DREAM WEB.

The piece currently hangs on the second floor of Exhibition Building 1, where it has been displayed since last October. Created to simultaneously celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Rinpa school of Japanese painting, the folding screen draws its visual language from the Wind God and Thunder God composition attributed to Rinpa master Kōrin, recasting that iconic two-panel format with Mario and Luigi as its subjects. According to one review, the work was originally created by artist Taro Yamamoto and is on temporary loan from an art museum, with the museum providing a written explanation of its creation and meaning alongside the display.

The byōbu is one component of a broader wave of Super Mario Bros. 40th Anniversary programming that the Nintendo Museum has layered in since mid-2025. Starting September 13, 2025, the museum swapped its default play ticket design for one bearing the 40th Anniversary logo, a change set to last a full year. A history board tracing the entire Super Mario series went up on the first floor of Exhibition Building 1, where visitors can scan the artwork using the Nintendo Today! app to trigger videos and music from the games. Special anniversary lighting installations, including a plaza display of the 40th Anniversary logo, run through April 27, 2026.

Two anniversary products have also been available for purchase. The Nintendo Museum Official Book Vol. 01, which includes anniversary features and comes in Japanese and English editions, went on sale October 2, 2025 at the Art Gallery; each customer can buy only one version, and it is sold exclusively at the museum with cashless payment required. The Super Mario Bros. 40th Anniversary T-shirt, priced at 5,500 yen (tax included) and available in white or black in sizes ranging from 130 to XXL, became available November 14, 2025 at the museum shop Bonus Stage, and is also sold at Nintendo TOKYO, OSAKA, KYOTO, FUKUOKA, and through My Nintendo Store.

The Nintendo Museum opened October 2, 2024, on the site of Nintendo's former Uji Ogura Plant in Kyoto, where the company once manufactured hanafuda playing cards. Shigeru Miyamoto led a public preview tour in an August 19, 2024 Nintendo Direct before the doors opened. The folding screen display, with its roots in fine art history and its subject matter planted firmly in gaming history, represents the kind of temporary programming the museum has been building toward: rotating loans that give the permanent collection new context, if only for a limited time.