The Iwasaki Museum

The Iwasaki Art Museum was opened in Ibusuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, in 1983. Located in the gardens of the resort hotel and designed by Fumihiko Maki, the museum's collection includes works by Kuroda Seiki and Fujishima Takeji, as well as Western painters. The neighboring Iwasaki Yoshi Crafts Gallery was created by the will of Iwasaki Yoshi, the wife of the museum's founder, businessman Iwasaki Yohachir, and opened in 1998. Here are objects, including dishes Satsumata folk art from Papua New Guinea.