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
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
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
Émile-Antoine Bourdelle “Force (large version), Victory (large version), Liberty (large version),
Eloquence (large version)” exhibited
Auguste Rodin “Monument to Balzac”, Henry Moore “Reclining Figure: Arch Leg” exhibited
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)
1st Grand Prize of the Hakone Open-Air Museum Exhibition
Green Plaza, Art Hall, and Manzù Room completed
Akiko Arita “Footmarks” exhibited
Gabriel Loire “Symphonic Sculpture” completed
Carl Milles “The Hand of God” exhibited
Taro Okamoto “Tree Man” George Rickey “Two Lines Vertical, Hakone” exhibited
Carl Milles “Man and Pegasus” Ryoji Goto “Intersecting Space Construction” exhibited
10th Anniversary: The 1st Henry Moore Grand Prize Exhibition
Construction of Picture Gallery completed (later renamed Green Gallery)
1st Kotaro Takamura Grand Prize Exhibition
On June 6th, Opening of the Utsukushi-ga-hara Open-Air Museum
Kotaro Takamura “Michinoku (Northeast of Japan)” exhibited
Construction of Picasso Pavilion and New Gallery (entrance, Multi Hall, and other places)
Bukichi Inoue “my sky hole 84 HAKONE” exhibited
tupera tupera + Mikiko Endo Question Park in The Hakone Open-Air Museum
