Outline

The Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art opened in 1990 in the fertile green natural environment of an area known as the northern plateau in the city of Sakura, Chiba Prefecture. For some 34 years since, it has continued operation as a museum in harmony with the changing seasons. In the time of year when the plum blossoms and cherry blossoms come into bloom, a Kawamura Museum collection exhibition will be mounted, using all of the museum’s galleries.

From its founding, the Museum adopted an ideal of “Harmony between the three elements of the environment, the architecture and the art works,” and as time passed the elements of that ideal were redefined as “Art, Architecture and Nature,” and they remain this way to the present. Compared to the unique qualities of our special themed exhibitions and events, our Collection Display, with their limited variety of works, tend to attract less attention. Nonetheless, at the Museum we have continued to devote special importance to this Collection Display has long provided opportunities to create pure expressions unifying these “three elements”. The Museum’s architecture is a composite of eleven different galleries, each of which have been designed down to the finest details with paramount importance placed on the unique presence and identity of the individual works in the collection, all with the purpose of providing viewing experiences for each and every visitor. Connecting these galleries, aligned as they are like individual islands, are hallways and corridors with windows that sunlight to reach them. There, visitors sense the natural outdoor environment in a way that hopefully refreshes their eyes and hearts for the encounters with the next gallery’s works of art.

In this way, the Museum’s architecture can be likened to a box that serves as a mediator between its artworks and the natural world. In our activities for over 30 years, we have provided a venue for countless such “encounters.” Now, we take this opportunity to return to our original ideals as a museum to present this Collection Display of some 180 works from our collection.