Kawamura Memorial Dic Museum of Art

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) is 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.

According to DIC corporation, the museum has had a positive impact on the image of the company. At the end of the 20th century, the museum was attracting over 300,000 visitors each year. Former president Shigekuni Kawamura commented that ‘customers. . evaluate us highly as a cultivated, international company which is not concerned solely with its business. This is not an outcome we planned, but is a very satisfying one’.

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Name : Kawamura Memorial Dic Museum of Art

Category : Art

Website : HTTP://KAWAMURA-MUSEUM.DIC.CO.JP/EN/INDEX.HTML

TEL : 0120-498-130

Area : Chiba (Kanto)

Address : 631 Sakado，Sakura，Chiba 285-8505
〒285-8505 千葉県佐倉市坂戸631
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