Oita Prefectural Museum Opened

On April 24, the Oita Prefectural Museum (Director: NIIMI Takashi) opened in the central part of Ōita City, Ōita Prefecture. Designed by BAN Shigeru, it has one basement and three (partly four) floors above ground. The core of the collection consists of approximately 5,000 works by artists associated with Ōita Prefecture, such as TANOMURA Chikuden, ASAKURA Fumio, FUKUDA Heihachirō and TAKAYAMA Tatsuo, which were inherited from the Ōita kenritsu geijutsu kaikan, which closed in March. The exhibitions titled ‘Modern: Blossoming Garden – Oita World Museum – Oita & World 200 Masterpieces’ (April 24 – July 20) and ‘Dawn of Gods – Encounter of Venus, and Spiritual Landscape, East and West’ (October 31, 2015 – January 24, 2016) were held to commemorate the opening of the museum. (Japanese)