Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art

Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art
Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art
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LocationSakura, Japan
Coordinates35°39′11.70″N 140°13′16.93″E / 35.6532500°N 140.2213694°E / 35.6532500; 140.2213694
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The Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art (DIC川村記念美術館, DIC Kawamura Kinen Bijutsukan) (often shortened to Kawamura Memorial Museum) is an art museum in Sakura, Japan, designed by Ichiro Ebihara (海老原一郎, Ebihara Ichiro).

The museum opened in 1990 and its collection now contains more than 1000 works collected by the Japanese resin and ink manufacturer DIC Corporation.[1] The project was largely the brainchild of Katsumi Kawamura, the former president of DIC, founder and first director of the museum, who had been collecting art since the 1970s.[1] The Kawamura Memorial Museum contains artwork by a wide selection of American, European and Japanese artists, including special exhibitions of the works of Mark Rothko and Frank Stella. The museum is set in a 30-hectare park with over 200 kinds of trees, 500 kinds of plants and inhabited by many wild birds and insects.[2]

According to a DIC management decision, partially attributed to shareholder pressure,[3] the museum will close on February 1, 2025.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b "About the Museum". Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art. Archived from the original on April 3, 2018. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
  2. ^ "Nature". Archived from the original on November 20, 2017. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
  3. ^ Stone, Tim (3 September 2024). "Japanese art museum—home to one of world's only four Rothko rooms—faces closure and collection selloff". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Museum closure".
  5. ^ The search for Japan’s ‘lost’ art Financial Times.