Kan Yasuda Sculpture Museum Arte Piazza Bibai, Sculpture garden and art museum in Bibai, Japan
The Kan Yasuda Sculpture Museum is an art museum with exhibition spaces and galleries featuring contemporary sculptures. The site combines indoor rooms and outdoor areas where stone and bronze works are distributed across the grounds.
The museum opened in 1992 through the transformation of a school building, preserving the original wooden framework. Former classrooms were adapted into exhibition spaces while maintaining the historic structure.
The former classrooms on the second floor now form a citizens' gallery, opened in 1999. The site also hosts the annual Forest Square concert, first held in 2000, and the Alte Bon Odori dance, started in 2010. The name Arte Piazza means "art square" in Italian.
The site covers more than 70,000 m², with sculptures set on the former school grounds and a sculpture hill added in 2002; allow time to walk between them. Accessible parking was installed the same year. The former classrooms now hold a municipal gallery upstairs and a kindergarten downstairs, and the old gymnasium serves as an art hall for concerts.
The museum regularly offers hands-on classes where visitors can learn stone carving techniques from skilled craftspeople. This opportunity to create connects the space with a working craft tradition.
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