THE HAKONE OPEN-AIR MUSEUM

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The Open-Air Museum comprises two restaurants, two cafes and three shops. "Bella Foresta" is an all-you-can-eat buffet-style restaurant offering 35 different kinds of food. "Hakone Yamucharow" is a yamucha restaurant where you can enjoy the authentic Hong Kong taste of Chinese dumpling.

The two cafes are "Gallery Cafe", which was made under the theme of the great master Picasso, and "Belle Forêt", which is a cafe with the interior of a British pub.

Museum goods are available at "Gallery Shop", which offers a number of Picasso goods, and "Shopping Mall", which is the largest shop in the museum.

The Picasso Pavilion, devoted to the work of the twentieth century Spanish master, Pablo Picasso, was established on the grounds of the Hakone Open-Air Museum in 1984, the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the museum. We decided to establish this pavilion, the first Picasso museum in Japan, after we acquired 188 pieces of Picasso’s ceramic art that had been inherited by his oldest daughter, Maya. This purchase was followed by the purchase of other objects, including oil paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, gold objects, silver compotes, gemmail glass art, and tapestries. After the museum opened, we continued acquiring prints and drawings.

Our Picasso collection now numbers more than 300 items, providing an opportunity for the many people who visit Hakone to experience the works of art produced by this artist in his successive creative cycles.
Picasso became seriously involved with ceramics, which form the core of our collection, at the Vallauris studio in southern France after he was 65 years of age. They reveal his obvious pleasure in manipulating the clay and colors as he brought together sculptural and painterly elements to create these works.