THE HAKONE OPEN-AIR MUSEUM

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1968

On January 4th, the plan to establish the Hakone Open-Air Museum was announced. 

Groundbreaking ceremony for the Hakone Open-Air Museum

Established foundation for the Hakone Open-Air Museum

1969

On August 1th, Opening of the Hakone Open-Air Museum

Main Gallery completed

1st International Exhibition of Modern Sculpture

Aristide Maillol “Action Enchained”,

Takamichi Ito “Sixteen Turning Sticks” Marta Pan “Floating Sculpture 3” exhibited

1970

Émile-Antoine Bourdelle “Force (large version), Victory (large version), Liberty (large version),

Eloquence (large version)” exhibited

1971

Auguste Rodin “Monument to Balzac”, Henry Moore “Reclining Figure: Arch Leg” exhibited

1972

Hakone Tozan Railway, Ninotaira Station renamed to Chokoku-no-mori Station

Sculpture exhibition in Marunouchi Nakadori Street, Tokyo

(displayed works subsequently changed every few years; named Marunouchi Street Gallery in 2002)

1973

1st Grand Prize of the Hakone Open-Air Museum Exhibition

1974

Green Plaza, Art Hall, and Manzù Room completed

Akiko Arita “Footmarks” exhibited

1975

Gabriel Loire “Symphonic Sculpture” completed

Carl Milles “The Hand of God” exhibited

1976

Taro Okamoto “Tree Man” George Rickey “Two Lines Vertical, Hakone” exhibited

1978

Carl Milles “Man and Pegasus” Ryoji Goto “Intersecting Space Construction” exhibited

1979

10th Anniversary: The 1st Henry Moore Grand Prize Exhibition

1980

Construction of Picture Gallery completed (later renamed Green Gallery)

1st Kotaro Takamura Grand Prize Exhibition 

1982

Kotaro Takamura “Michinoku (Northeast of Japan)” exhibited

1984

Construction of Picasso Pavilion and New Gallery (entrance, Multi Hall, and other places)

Bukichi Inoue “my sky hole 84 HAKONE” exhibited

1987

Inauguration of the Henry Moore Collection
François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne “The Weeper” exhibited

1989

Night-Time Art Fantasy 121 (evening event; held annually until 2001)

1991

Medardo Rosso

1994

25th Anniversary Exhibition: Arnaldo Pomodoro
25th Anniversary Exhibition: Bukichi Inoue

1999

Resonance of Life, a monument by Susumu Shingu, unveiled to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the
museum
30th Anniversary Exhibition: Forms in Nature

2000

Niki de Saint Phalle “Miss Black Power” exhibited outdoors

2001

Giuliano Vangi-Rinascita della Figura Umana

2002

Cai Guo-Qiang's Chado Pavilion-Homage to Tenshin Okakura

2004

35th Anniversary Exhibition: Henry Moore, the Expanse of Nature-The Nature of Man
Hot spring foot bath opens

2005

Giuliano Vangi “A Grand Story” exhibited

2007

Fernand Léger“Walking Flower” exhibited

2009

Woods of Net completed
40th Anniversary Exhibition: Masamichi Yamamoto
40th Anniversary Exhibition: Minami Tada

2019

Renewal of Picasso Pavilion to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the museum