Family Travelogue: Hakone Open-Air Museum March 2016

Sunday 20 March 2016

Hakone Open-Air Museum March 2016

The Hakone Open-Air Museum is a Harmony of Sculpture and Nature. It was opened in scenic Hakone in 1969, the first museum in Japan devoted to sculpture in the open air.

The museum is situated in 70,000 sqm of parkland and has distant vistas of mountain and sea that change with the changing seasons.

In 2014, around 300 works of Picasso were added with the over 120 works displayed in the open. Picasso's works are placed inside and photography is prohibited.

Museum staff members check the status of the sculptures daily and carry out any necessary conservation to preserve their beauty and original condition. The staff also focuses on landscaping and planting. The sculptures are placed to balance and harmonize with the terrain of the surrounding mountains.

Chimera con Ali (1963)

made of Bronze, 1963 Chimera con Ali by an Italian artist, Marcello Mascherini (1906~1983)

1906 Action Enchainee

made of bronze 1906 Action Enchainee by a French Artist, Aristide Maillol (1861~1944)

1971 L' Homme Vegetal

made of fiber reinforced plastic and pain, 1971 L' Homee Vegetal by a Japanese artist, Taro Okamoto (1911~1996)

1959 II Guerriero

1959~60 II Guerriero by an Italian artist, Marino Marini (1901~1980)

1891~98 Balzac

1891~98 Balzac by a French artist, Auguste Rodin (1840~1917)

2008 Florentia

made of granite and gold, 2008 Florentia by an Italian artist, Guliano Vangi (1931~)

1969~70 Reclining Figure: Arch Leg

made of bronze 1969~70 Reclining Figure: Arch Leg by a British artist, Herny Moore (1898~1986)

1971~80 Arborescence

made of epoxy resins and polyurethane paint, 1971~80 Arborescence by a French artist, Jean Dubuffet (1901~1985)

1966 Les Aretes de Poisson

1966 Les Aretes de Poisson (The Arts of Fish) by an American artist, Alexander Calder (1898~1976)

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1954~80 Spatiodynamique No. 22

1954~80 Spatiodynamique No. 22 by a Hungarian/French artist, Nicolas Schoffer (1912~1992)

1978 Never Ending Dialogue

1978 Never Ending Dialogue by a Japanese artist, Susumu Shimgu (1937~)

1969 Sixteen Turning Sticks

1969 Sixteen Turning Sticks by a Japanese artist, Takamichi Ito

How to get there:

From Gora: Take the Tozan train and alight after one stop at Chokoku-No-Mori Station.
follow the signs to the Open Air Museum.

Getting to the Hakone Open-Air Museum

From Shinjuku, we took the Romance Car to Hakone Yumoto.
From Hakone Yumoto Station, we went down across the road and took the Bus 2 bound to Moto Hakone Ko and Hakone Machi Ko. We alighted at Moto Hakone Ko.
From Moto Hakone Ko, we joined the Lake Ashii Cruise to Togendai Ko
From Togendai Ko, we took the Ropeway to Ubako station
From Ubako station, we took the Bus to Sounzan station
From Sounzan Station, we took the cable car to Gora station
We had our lunch near Gora station before we went to the Open-Air Museum by the Tozan Railway train.
A separate post for our Hakone trip March 2016.

continues to... Hakone Open-Air Museum March 2016 (Part 2)

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