The Hakone Open-Air Museum
The Hakone Open-Air Museum is Japan's first open-air museum, opened in 1969 in the Hakone area of Asigarasimo, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It has collections of works of art by Picasso, Henry Moore, Tarot Okamoto, Yasuo Mizui, Churio Sato and many others, which presents more than a thousand sculptures and works of art. The museum is a representative of the media conglomerates of the Fujisankei group.
The museum houses more than 1,000 sculptures and art features by Henry Moore, Constantin Brancusi, Barbara Hepworth, Rokuzan Ojiwara and Kotaro Takamura. Sculptures in the Hakone Open-Air Museum are permanently housed near a huge sculpture park.
The museum is divided into 5 closed exhibitions and the most famous hall of the Picasso pavilion, which presents about 300 works by Picasso. The museum also offers sculptures for children to play in and a natural hot foot bath for guests.