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The Hakone Open-Air Museum opened in 1969 as the first open-air art museum in Japan. The museum's collections include about 100 masterpieces of Rodin, Bourdelle, Miro, Henry Moore and others in the garden; and Brancusi, Morie Ogiwara, Boccioni, Lipchitz, Modigliani, Shin Hongo and others inside.
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JAPAN Short but sweet touching trip The Hakone open air Museum 1
The Hakone Open Air Museum (Hakone Chōkoku No Mori Bijutsukan), successfully attempts to create a harmonic balance of nature and art by exhibiting various sculptures on its spacious grounds in combination with beautiful views of the surrounding valley and mountains. Hakone Open-Air Museum is Japan's first open-air museum, opened in 1969
Art work at entrance to the Hakone Open-Air Museum - © Kluke
Art work at entrance to the Hakone Open-Air Museum - © Kluke
The Hakone Open Air Museum, (Hakone Chōkoku No Mori Bijutsukan)
Chimera con Ali by Marcello Mascherini (Italy, 1906-1983) bronze
Chimera con Ali Marcello Mascherini (Italy, 1906-1983) bronze
Antoine Bourdelle (French, 1861-1929) Grande Héraclès
Antoine Bourdelle (French, 1861-1929) Grande Héraclès
Antoine Bourdelle (French, 1861-1929) Grande Héraclès Giacomo Manzu (Italy, 1908-1991) Grande Striptease, 1967
Giuliano Vangi (Italian, 1931) Florentia, 2008
Giuliano Vangi (Italian, 1931) Florentia, 2008
Auguste Rodin (1840 -1917) Monument to Balzac. 1898 (one of 13 casts in existence around the world) Jean Dubuffet (French, 1901-1985) Arborescence
Auguste Rodin (1840 -1917) Monument to Balzac © Claudia Sarmento
Aristide Maillol (France, 1861-1944) Action enchaînée, 1906
Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne (French) La Pleureuse (The Mourner)
Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne (French) La Pleureuse (The Mourner)
Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) Les Arêtes de Poisson, 1966
Alexander Calder (Les Arêtes de Poisson) & Jean Dubuffet (Arborescence)
Taro Okamoto (Japan, 1911-1996) L’homme Vegetal, 1971
Takao Tsuchida (Japanese, 1943) Sound of Wind
Carl Milles (Swedish, 1875-1955) Man and Pegasus
Carl Milles (Swedish, 1875-1955) Man and Pegasus
Martin Matschinsky (German, 1921) Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff (German, 1923) Sturm 1980
Henry Moore (British 1898-1986) Reclining figure Arch leg
Masayuki Nagare (Japan, 1923) Imprint of the Wind (1979)
Nicolas Schoffer (Hungarian, French, 1912-1992) Spatiodynamique no.22 Naum Gabo (Russian American, 1870-1977) Spheric Theme, 1976
Naum Gabo Spheric Theme, 1976
Susumu Shingu (Japan, 1937) Never Ending Dialogue, 1978 Arnaldo Pomodoro (Italian, 1926) Sfera con Sfera
Francisco Zúñiga (Costa-Ricanic-Mexikan 1912-98) Group in Front of the Sea (1984)