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Sunday 9:00-17:00
Tuesday 9:00-17:00
Wednesday 9:00-17:00
Thursday 9:00-17:00
Friday 9:00-17:00
Saturday 9:00-17:00
Last admission 16:30
Closed:Monday ( If Monday is a national holiday, the following day ) , Year-end and New Year
* The museum may be temporarily closed for events, construction, maintenance, etc.

十和田市現代美術館

The Towada Museum of Contemporary Art is the core facility of the Arts Towada project as "an open facility that offers new experiences through art.

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Museum Concept

The Museum of Contemporary Art Towada is the core facility of the Arts Towada project as "an open facility offering new experiences through art.
The permanent exhibition, which features 38 permanently installed works that can only be seen here in Towada, is composed of commissioned works by 33 internationally renowned artists, including Yayoi Kusama, Ron ・ Mueck
and others. The exhibition is composed of commissioned works by 33 internationally renowned artists, including Yayoi Kusama, Ron Mueck
In addition to the permanent exhibition space, the museum also serves as a base for supporting cultural and artistic activities and promoting exchanges, and has a variety of functions including a space for special exhibitions, a café, and space for civic activities.

The museum is characterized by the fact that the individual exhibition rooms are independent as "houses for art," and the buildings are distributed throughout the site, connected by glass corridors.
By arranging each exhibition room independently, the architectural space can be created to suit each artwork, and the two can form a closer relationship.
This decentralized composition is inspired by the characteristics of Kanchogaidori, where plazas and buildings alternate, creating an organic mix of artwork and city.
And by creating small and large volumes in the buildings, it creates continuity with the landscape of the street lined with large and small buildings.
Furthermore, this distributed arrangement creates outdoor exhibition and event spaces, allowing visitors to experience indoor and outdoor spaces simultaneously.
In addition, the spaces where artwork will be exhibited will have large glass openings facing in various directions, creating an open composition as if the artwork were being displayed against the city.

What is Arts Towada? In recent years, due to the consolidation and elimination of national government offices as a result of the reorganization of ministries and agencies and the relocation of government agencies due to the construction of joint government buildings, many vacant lots have become visible on the city's symbolic government office street. In response, Towada City has been working on the "Arts Towada" project to create a more attractive and beautiful landscape of Kanchogaidori Avenue, and as part of the city's new urban development for the future.

The plan is to use the outdoor space of Kanchogaidori as a stage for a variety of artworks, turning the entire street into a museum.
This is a rare attempt of its kind in the world.
In addition to the artworks, we aim to impress many people in Japan and abroad with Towada as a "City of Art" and "Inspiring and Creative City" that is full of individuality by incorporating various mechanisms that draw out the history, beautiful nature, and vitality of the region and connect it to the future.
The core facility, the Towada Museum of Contemporary Art, opened in 2008, and Arts Towada was completed in the spring of 2010, following the development of the former tax office across from the museum and the installation of symbolic artwork.



Towada Museum of Contemporary Art
10-9 Nishi Nibancho, Towada, Aomori
For access information, see website .
Tel. TEL: 0176-20-1127

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