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One of the few places on earth showing Rothko's Seagram murals in a dedicated darkened room; it closed to the public in 2025.
About this place
The Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art (DIC川村記念美術館, DIC Kawamura Kinen Bijutsukan) (often shortened to Kawamura Memorial Museum) was an art museum in Sakura, Japan, designed by Ichiro Ebihara (海老原一郎, Ebihara Ichiro). The museum opened in 1990 and its collection now contains more than 1000 works collected by the Japanese resin and ink manufacturer DIC Corporation. The project was largely the brainchild of Katsumi Kawamura, the former president of DIC, founder and first director of the museum, who had been collecting art since the 1970s. The Kawamura Memorial Museum contains artwork by a wide selection of American, European and Japanese artists, including special exhibitions of the works of Mark Rothko and Frank Stella. The museum is set in a 30-hectare park with over 200 kinds of trees, 500 kinds of plants and inhabited by many wild birds and insects. According to a DIC management decision, partially attributed to shareholder pressure, the museum was initially planned to close on February 1, 2025, but due to public demand of Sakura residents, closure date was moved to March 31, 2025. The collection, including the Rothko room, will relocate to an upcoming west wing of the International House of Japan in Tokyo planned to open in 2030.
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Source ja.wikipedia.org ↗Key facts
Founded / opened：1990 Architect / artist：Ichiro Ebihara Highlights / collection：Rothko Room, Rembrandt, Frank Stella Genre：Western art, Contemporary art
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