MAIN GALLERY
CRAFT ART AND ASIATIC ART GALLERY
ANNEX
TORAJIRO KOJIMA MEMORIAL HALL
SHINKEI-EN GARDEN
MUSEUM SHOP
The Main Gallery was built when the Ohara Museum of Art was founded.
The museum expanded to open the Annex, the Craft Art Gallery, the Asiatic Art Gallery and Kojima Torajiro Memorial Hall and has
maintained these galleries to this day.
The museum celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2000, when water lilies were sent from Monet's Japanese-style garden in Giverny, France.
In the pond next to the Craft Art Gallery, beautiful water lilies are in full bloom from spring to summer.
You can enter the galleries as many times as you like during the day of your ticket purchase.
Please have a good time at the Ohara Museum of Art.
Some works has not been exhibited by lending to other museum or holding exhibition or maintenance. Please acknowledge it beforehand. Please inquire about works under the exhibition in advance.
The Main Gallery, where two sculptures made by Rodin welcome you at the entrance, features artwork by the Impressionists, collected by Kojima Torajiro, and Modern art from Europe and American as its regular exhibition. Inside you will see masterpieces by El Greco, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Segantini, Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Kandinsky, Fontana, Soulages, Pollock, De Kooning, Maillol, Giacometti, Calder as well as many other artists.
The gallery, remodeled from an old granary, consists of the Craft Art Gallery and Asiatic Art Gallery.
The regular exhibition includes ceramics by Hamada Shoji, Bernard Leach, Tomimoto Kenkichi, Kawai Kanjiro,
woodblock prints by Munakata Shiko, stencil dyeing crafts by Serizawa Keisuke and antiques from China collected by Kojima Torajiro.
At the front of the Annex stand sculptures by Rodin and Moore, among others. It exhibits masterpieces by Japanese
oil painters such as Fujishima Takeji, Aoki Shigeru, Kishida Ryusei, Yorozu Tetsugoro, Foujita Tsuguharu, Saeki Yuzo
Maeta Kanji, Koide Narashige, Sekine Shoji, Nakamura Tsune, Sakamoto Hanjiro, Umehara Ryuzaburo, Yasui Sotaro
Mitsutani Kunishiro, as well as sculptures by such artists as Takamura Kotaro and Ogihara Morie. Modern pieces by
Yoshihara Jiro, Yamaguchi Takeo, Saito Yoshishige, Nanbata Tatsuoki and others are exhibited in the basement.
The Kojima Torajiro room exhibits artworks by Torajiro, and the Orient Room features artwork from Ancient Egypt and Medieval Islam collected by Torajiro, and artifacts from Pre-Historic Iran collected with the support of the late Mizuno Seiichi, a professor of Kyoto University.
Kojima Torajiro Memorial Hall is in Kurashiki Ivy Square.
Shinkei-en garden is a Japanese-style garden that is between Main Gallery and Annex. This garden is managed by Kurashiki City.
This is a shop that sell original museum goods and a related book etc. on Ohara Museum of Art.
