[Miyagi Prefecture] Autumn of art has arrived! Introducing 7 recommended art museums in Miyagi Prefecture!

The summer heat has eased, and autumn has finally arrived.Although autumn in Tohoku is short, I want to enjoy it to the fullest! Normally, I would recommend things like food, autumn leaves, and mountain climbing, but this time I would like to introduce from my personal perspective some recommended art museums in Miyagi Prefecture that you can stop by while driving around regardless of the weather.

[Tagajo City] Tohoku History Museum

The Tohoku History Museum, located in Tagajo City, is the central museum in Miyagi Prefecture. It was established in 1974, and due to aging, it was relocated and renovated to its current location in 1999. Learning from the history of Tohoku and Miyagi, it has become a base for supporting cultural creation in the 21st century while passing on the outstanding local culture.

The facility has a general exhibition room , a themed exhibition room, a video exhibition room, and a special exhibition room.In the general exhibition room, the history of the entire Tohoku region from the Paleolithic period to modern times is divided into nine era-based corners. It is on display.

There is also a children's history museum, library information room, etc. on the third floor of the main building. Additionally, on land adjacent to the main building is the Konno family residence, which was relocated from Hashiura, Kitakami-cho, Ishinomaki City and is a tangible cultural property designated by Miyagi Prefecture.

Recently, the "World Heritage Great Silk Road Exhibition" was held in the special exhibition room for about two months from April 9, 2024, and attracted a lot of attention.

Information

• Address: 1-22-1 Takasaki, Tagajo City, Miyagi Prefecture 985-0862
• Opening hours: 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (*Tickets are issued until 4:30 p.m.)
• Closed: Every Monday (or the following weekday if Monday is a public holiday), New Year holidays (December 29th to January 4th)
• Admission fee/permanent exhibition: Individuals: 460 yen Elementary, junior high, and high school students: Free *Special exhibitions are subject to separate fees.
• Contact: Tohoku Museum of History Management Department Information Services Section
  • Phone number: 022-368-0106
    • Email: thm-service@pref.miyagi.lg.jp
    • Building design: Kukan Sekkei Co., Ltd.
    • URL: https://www.thm.pref.miyagi.jp/

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[Sendai City] Sendai City Museum

It is Sendai City's central historical museum, located on the site of the Sendai Castle Sannomaru ruins.

Opened in 1961 to store, display, and research cultural properties donated by the Sendai Date family in 1951, the museum houses national treasures such as the Hasekura Tsunenaga statue, which has been registered as a UNESCO Memory of the World, and materials related to the Keicho Mission to Europe. It houses approximately 100,000 historical, cultural, and arts and crafts materials related to the Sendai domain, including important cultural properties such as Date Masamune's utensils and jinbaori, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi's utensils.

The facility has permanent exhibitions, special exhibition rooms, theme exhibition rooms, collection exhibition rooms, and special exhibition rooms.

In the past, various planned and special exhibitions have been held, including the ``Ancient Egyptian Exhibition from the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden'' in 2021.

The building had been closed since October 2021 due to renovation work to extend its lifespan, but will reopen in April 2024.

Information

• Address: 26 Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-0862
• Opening hours: 9:00 to 16:45 (Last entry is 16:15)
• Closed: Mondays (open on public holidays and substitute holidays)
• Admission fee
  • Permanent exhibition: General/university students/460 yen High school students/230 yen Elementary/junior high school students/110 yen
  • Special exhibitions: Separate from the permanent exhibition admission fee. Please check the following website each time.
• Phone number: 022-225-3074
• Building design: Sato General Planning
• URL: https://www.city.sendai.jp/museum/

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[Shiogama City] Kanno Art Museum

The Sugano Museum of Art is a private art museum located in Shiogama City, Miyagi Prefecture that exhibits sculptures.

This is a private art museum established by Yoshiyo Kanno, founder of the medical corporation Kanno Aiseikai, which operates a hospital in Miyagi Prefecture, to serve as a hub for art in the region, based on his own collection of modern Western sculpture. It opened in March 2006. It houses a collection of eight sculptures by artists such as Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore, and Pericle Fazzini.The building was designed by Hitoshi Abe, an architect based in Miyagi Prefecture, and the structural design was by Masato Shintani. Each person is in charge of the work, and the building itself is designed to have a sculpture-like quality.

The building was also selected for the 2009 Architectural Institute of Japan Award.

Information

• Address: 3-4-15 Tamagawa, Shiogama City, Miyagi Prefecture 985-0042
• Opening hours: 10:00-17:00 (Admission accepted until 16:30)
• Closed: Mondays and Tuesdays (open on holidays and closed the next day)
• Admission fee: *We hold special exhibitions several times a year and permanent exhibitions featuring items from our collection.
  • Permanent exhibition period: Adults/300 yen, University/High school students/200 yen, Junior high school students and under/Free
  • Special exhibition period: Adults/500 yen, University/High school students/300 yen, Junior high school students and under/Free
• Phone number: 022-361-1222
• Building design: Hitoshi Abe (architect)
• URL: http://www.kanno-museum.jp/index.html

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[Osaki City] Sensory Museum

The Senses Museum will be the first museum in Japan to focus on the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Opened on August 4, 2000, the museum aims to restore the ``comfort'' and ``mental richness'' that we tend to lose as we live in a materialistic civilization by honing our sensibilities and enhancing our imagination through sensory experiences. Masu.

The museum consists of two zones: the Dialogue Zone (physical sensory space) and the Monologue Zone (meditation space), and there are exhibits that allow you to become aware of your senses through the experience of seeing, hearing, touching, and smelling.

• Dialogue zone (physical sensory space)
  • With the theme of physical sensations, this is a space where you can experience a virtual dialogue between the creator and the experience through exhibitions.
• Monologue zone (meditation space)
  • It is a space where exhibits and performance spaces with the theme of divine sensations stimulate the imagination of those who experience them, gradually making them forget their everyday senses, and inviting them into a world of meditation.

Information

• Address: 100 Shimokawaracho, Iwadeyama, Osaki City, Miyagi Prefecture 989-6434
• Opening hours: 9:30-17:00 (last entry 16:30)
• Closed: Every Monday (the next day if Monday is a holiday)
• Admission fee: Adults/800 yen High school students/400 yen Junior high school students/350 yen Elementary school students/300 yen
• Inquiries: 0229-72-5588
• Design: Rokkaku Kijo Planning Studio
• Completion: Maeda Construction Tohoku Branch
• URL: https://www.kankaku.org/

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[ Tome City ] Satoru Sato Art Museum

Satoru Sato Art Museum is an art museum that opened on July 28, 2007 on the 3rd floor of the Tome City Nakata Lifelong Learning Center, which is located in the renovated former Sakuraba Elementary School building in Kaminuma, Nakata-cho, Tome City. This museum displays a collection of ``geometric composition paintings'' donated by Mr. Satoru Sato, a figurative artist from Tome City, and the friends he met during his stay in Paris.

In addition to works exhibited indoors, Satoru Sato's works include sculptures, landscape designs, and other environmental art works that are exhibited outdoors in many places around the world, including 14 pieces in his hometown of Tome City. There are environmental art works.

Information

• Address: 3F Tome City Nakata Lifelong Learning Center, 43 Kaminuma Azatate, Nakata-cho, Tome City, Miyagi Prefecture 987-0602
• Opening hours: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Admission until 4:00 p.m.)
• Closed: Every Monday (open if Monday is a holiday) Year-end and New Year holidays (12/28-1/4)
• Admission fee: Free
• Inquiries: 0220-34-8081
• URL: https://www.city.tome.miyagi.jp/satorusatoartmuseum/index.html

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[Sendai City] Shimakawa Art Museum

The Shimakawa Art Museum was originally opened in Zao-cho, Katta-gun, Miyagi Prefecture as the "Ale Zao Shimakawa Memorial Museum" based on the collection collected by Takaya Shimakawa, President and CEO of Japan Health Summit Co., Ltd., but in 2019 This art museum relocated to Honmachi, Aoba-ku, Sendai City and opened in March as the Shimakawa Art Museum.

The exhibits are located on the second to fifth floors of the building, and after paying the entrance fee at the reception on the first floor, take the elevator up to the fifth floor and take the stairs to the first floor to view each floor.

The most distinctive feature of the Shimakawa Art Museum is its vast collection and the ability to see all the works of famous painters who colored art history all at once. Although I mentioned art history, there are also many works of contemporary art, so people of all ages can enjoy them.

Major works include works by Yokoyama Taikan, Hayami Mifune, Higashiyama Kaii, Kayama Matazo, Hirayama Ikuo, Morimoto Sosuke, and many others, including Raku tea bowls, ceramics, and Western glass.

Information

• Address: 2-14-24 Honmachi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture 980-0014
• Opening hours: 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (Last entry is 2:30 p.m.)
• Closed: Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, year-end and New Year holidays (December 29th to January 3rd)
• Admission fee: General/1,000 yen, High school student/500 yen, Elementary/junior high school student/300 yen
• Inquiries: 022-214-7080
• URL: https://shimakawa-museum.jp/

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[Osaki City] Chubachi Art Museum

art museum located in Osaki City, Miyagi Prefecture . Japanese swords are highly regarded among Japanese arts and This is a museum specializing in Japanese swords, with the theme of the history and works that show that they originated in Tohoku, and how they were related to various countries.

Many blacksmith groups were active in Oshu, and it is said that there was a group of blacksmiths from the Maigusa, Gassan, and Tamatsukuri groups.

`Mokusakei , which was produced around Makusa Shrine located halfway up Mt. Kannon in the Maigusa district of Ichinoseki City, Iwate Prefecture , as well as works mainly in northern Miyagi Prefecture. Tamazukuri-kei produced by a group that was quickly subordinated under the Ritsuryo regime Gassan-kei, produced by a group centered on the Dewa Sanzan , are also on display. Over 50 hand-made swords, straight swords, Ainu swords, old continental swords, swords exported through the Kango trade, swords made in collaboration with foreign swordsmiths, and local swords are always on display.

Information

• Address: 7-6 Kamikawaracho, Iwadeyama, Osaki City, Miyagi Prefecture 989-6433
• Opening hours: 10:00-16:00
• Closed: 12/29-1/3
• Admission fee: Adults/500 yen, University/high school students/300 yen, Elementary/junior high school students/100 yen
• Inquiries: 0229-29-9833
• URL: https://chubachimuseum.client.jp/index.html

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summary

There are other art galleries and museums of various sizes in Miyagi Prefecture. This is a personal selection, so that part is not included! I think there are some facilities that everyone would recommend.

This time, autumn of art has arrived! As a result, you will be visiting various locations within the prefecture, but we recommend that you stop by while you are driving.

You may come across various facilities while driving.

I would also like to introduce the Miyagi Prefectural Museum of Art, but it is currently closed due to renovation work to extend its lifespan. Renovation construction will begin on June 19, 2020, and is scheduled to open sometime in 2020.

We are looking forward to the opening next year, which will be the first large-scale construction project in more than 40 years since 1981.