HAKONE OPEN AIR MUSEUM

Hakone Open Air Museum is an art museum featuring paintings and outdoor sculptures. Hakone Open Air Museum exhibitions include works  from famous artists including Picasso.  The Hakone Open Air Museum consists of five exhibition halls including the Picasso Pavilion and 70,000m2 of rolling gardens with around 120 outdoor sculptures. Hakone Open-Air Museum opened in 1969 as the first open-air art museum in Japan. In addition there is a foot bath to sooth your tired feet in, which is fed from a natural hot spring.

The Hakone Open Air Museum has a collection of over 300 works by Picasso on rotating display. This Picasso collection includes a large assortment of pottery,  variety of paintings, prints, sculptures, along with gold and silver items.

Within the Picasso Pavilion a large number of portraits of Picasso taken by David Douglas Duncan over the last 17 years of the Picasso's life.

The Hakone Open-Air Museum has one of the world's largest collections of works by the English master sculptor Henry Moore (1898-1986). There is a rotating exhibition of the twenty-six pieces in the collection.

Hakone Open Air Museum also features a variety of restaurants and shops to provide a complete a relaxing day out.