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Yokohama-bijutsukan Deputy Director and Chief Curator Tomoo Kashiwagi

　Do you know about the Yokohama Exposition held in 1989?
　Presented as one of the pavilions, Yokohama-bijutsukan, when the exposition ended and other pavilions disappeared, became a form proud of Potun and its dignity in the center of the desolate Minato Mirai District 21. There's no landmark tower yet. As dump trucks and heavy equipment threw up dust and came and went constantly, Yokohama-bijutsukan opened and began his art museum activities.
　35 years have passed since then. Built to attract a variety of commercial facilities, office buildings, hotels and condominiums, the Minato Mirai 21 district now offers Yokohama's representative cityscape, and is crowded with many visitors. Yokohama-bijutsukan is located at the center of Yokohama's main cultural facilities.

　It was in 1981 (Showa 56) that the city of Yokohama began to move concretely toward the construction of the museum. In January of that year, a proposal from the Yokohama City Cultural Affairs Roundtable pointed out that "art museums are indispensable facilities for citizens' lives", and the Yokohama City Museum of Art Basic Design Committee was established in June, and in March of the following year a report on the basic concept of the museum was presented by the committee.
　Based on this report, the philosophy of the museum was defined as "a modern and contemporary art museum with internationality", "a museum with the function of an art information center along with the collection, preservation and exhibition of art materials, as well as education and dissemination of art and the function of an art information center", "a museum that collects photographs" and "a museum that provides a place for appreciation and creation for citizens and artists."
　The construction site of the museum has been decided in the center of Minato Mirai 21 district. The design by Kenzo Tange Institute for Urban and Architectural Design was completed in the fall of 1985 (Showa 60), and construction began on December 25, the same year as the first permanent facility in the area.
　As noted at the beginning, it was opened on March 25, 1989 under the name "Yokohama-bijutsukan" as a facility commemorating the 100th anniversary of the municipal organization and the 130th anniversary of the opening of the port.

　Since Yokohama-bijutsukan was a late public museum, it was necessary to form a unique collection that was different from other museums. Based on the proposal of the Yokohama City Museum of Art Basic Design Committee, a basic policy was formulated by the city, and with the great cooperation of citizens, we started collecting art materials in 1982 (Showa 57). . More than 40 years later, more than 14,000 collections have been formed.
　In this article, I would like to introduce one of them.