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Museum Haus Kasuya (Kanagawa, Japan) | A place to speak with the director
Art museum in Kanagawa, set in a quiet residential area. As I spoke with the director, I felt pride and passion behind its founding in early contemporary art. A contemporary art museum in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, located in the center of the ... -
Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art / MIMOCA (Kagawa, Japan) | Discovering unique architectural structure
In Marugame, Kagawa, the same prefecture as Naoshima, I stand at the museum’s entrance and gradually take in its distinctive structure. I visit a contemporary art museum in Marugame, Kagawa. Whenever I think of Kagawa museums, Naoshima i... -
Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art (Okayama, Japan) | A pioneering contemporary art museum admired over time
In a mountainous town in northern Okayama, rectangular and cylindrical buildings suddenly appear, revealing the hidden history of this mysterious museum. In the mountains of northern Okayama Prefecture, a rectangular and cylindrical buil... -
Ohara Museum of Art（Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan) | Finding Fulfillment in a Majestic Space
Kurashiki, Okayama. Opened in 1930 as Japan’s first museum of Western art. The historic building houses modern masterpieces, and I felt a rare sense of fulfillment. The Ohara Museum always appears in lists of Kansai museums. It became Ja... -
Adachi Museum of Art (Shimane, Japan) | #1 Japanese garden, Year after Year
In western Japan. This renowned museum has gained fame for being ranked #1 Japanese garden for consecutive years. Visitors appreciate the garden as artwork. This art museum stands in Shimane Prefecture. It showcases Nihonga, or Japanese-... -
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA, USA) | Overwhelmed by the power of the artworks.
■ Impact: ★★★☆☆■ Space: ★★★☆☆■ Originality: ★★★★☆ San Francisco feels like a museum itself. One day, I found a place where Anselm Kiefer’s artworks expressed strong and powerful feelings that deeply moved me. A modern art museum in San F... -
Shimane Art Museum (Shimane, Japan) | Art museum in the sunset
Matsue, Shimane Prefecture. It has the modern architecture standing on the lakeside, I plan to return to experience the "art museum in the sunset." The Prefectural Art Museum in Matsue, the capital of Shimane Prefecture. It is about a 20... -
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA) | The pink painting of Mt. Fuji calms my mind.
Santa Fe, New Mexico. Admire Georgia O'Keeffe's painting of Mt. Fuji at the adobe-designed museum and imagine what Japan would look like in 1959. Art museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. This museum exhibits artworks exclusively by Georg... -
K20/K21 Museum (Dusseldorf, Germany) | Surpassing the three major modern art museums
■ Impact: ★★★☆☆■ Space: ★★★☆☆■ Originality: ★★★★☆ Two buildings in Düsseldorf, Germany that separate modern and contemporary, surprised the quality at K20, impressed the hidden power of contemporary art at K21. Museum in Düsseldorf. The ... -
Museum Abteiberg (Mönchengladbach, Germany) | Stop in Richter’s room
Mömphenglandbach in Germany. Interesting space where major artists from the 1960s and beyond, I stop in a room with only works by Gerhard Richter. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Mömphenglandbach, west of Düsseldorf, Germany. It...
