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Permanent Works

A

Watermark

The watermark on the museum exterior demonstrates a poem of the Naka-Boso region while characters are engraved by many punch press-like holes.

Artist

Yoshiaki Irobe + ART FRONT GALLERY

B

Heigh-Ho

The museum is breathing. When the visitors stand in front of the tree, which looks like an up-side-down alveoli, they can exchange the gloomy mood (carbon dioxide) for a refreshed one (oxygen) with the artwork. Let’s work hard for tomorrow – Heigh-Ho!

※Artwork is illuminated at night.

Artist

KOSUGE1-16

C

Toy Soldier

Toy Soldier is the museum guard who is dispatched from the toy army. He would like to take a break when there are no visitors!

Artist

KOSUGE1-16

D

MUSEUM-STAIRS / ROOF OF NEEDLES & PINS

700 of transparent tubes lead you the way to explore architecture of the museum and the surrounding nature. Architecture is not only here but there, not for it but for what it can lead you to…

※Artwork is illuminated at night

Artist

Acconci Studio

E

Lost Windows

Wandering landscape can be seen through the windows in the basement where to house things being forgotten.
Please slow down your steps and enjoy the flow of the time.

Artist

Ryota Kuwakubo

F

Star-Grapes

Do you know why the shadow is circular in shape when the sun passes through the branches of trees? Using gaps between leaves as a natural lens with the same phenomena, let’s make shadows in star-shape together.

※available after sunset only

Artist

Takahito Kimura

G

Warp

Artist

Hiraku Suzuki

H

Come Flying (Hirai)

An imaginative object comes from a billion light years away from galaxy. Visitors can enjoy the light and shade of the sun varying from time to time.

Artist

Katsuyuki Shinohara

I

Fujiwara Water Pumping System (Observation Tower)

The tower is a demonstration model which houses a large water pump to draw water from the lake for irrigation. Visitors also can climb the tower to appreciate the stunning and dramatic scenery of Lake Takataki and the neighborhood.

J

Star of Life (Yamasemi), Heat Haze, Festival of the Lake

With the theme of “the circle of life”, the artist tried to raise from the dead the creatures which lost their lives when the dam was built.

Artist

Mitsuo Shigemura