British Antique Museum Kamakura
| British Antique Museum BAM Kamakura | |
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英国アンティーク博物館 BAM鎌倉 | |
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Interactive map of the British Antique Museum BAM Kamakura area | |
General information | |
| Location | 1-11-4-1 Yukinoshita, Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan |
| Coordinates | 35°19′21″N 139°33′16″E / 35.322637°N 139.554552°E |
| Opened | 23 September 2022[1] |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 4 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architects | Kengo Kuma & Associates[2] |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
British Antique Museum BAM Kamakura (英国アンティーク博物館 BAM鎌倉, Eikoku Antīku Hakubutsukan BAM Kamakura) opened in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, in 2022.[1] Located along Wakamiya Ōji on the approach to Tsurugaoka Hachimangū, the museum building along with its fourth-floor tea room was designed by Kengo Kuma, with a windowless façade inspired by the local craft of Kamakura-bori woodcarving, executed in Japanese cypress with a CNC cutter, with incisions that gradually reduce in scale for perspective effect and to blend with the sky.[2][3]
The museum displays antiques from the collection of founder-director Dobashi Masaomi [ja], with a Georgian Room, a Victorian Room, and a Sherlock Holmes Room.[4] The tea room incorporates in its walls wooden members from a Hōjō residence excavated on the site where the museum now stands, together with a floor of oak from English manor houses, and hanging scroll-style windows with views of the forested hillside behind the shrine, saved from development in the 1960s by the National Trust-inspired efforts of Osaragi Jirō and others that would lead to the establishment of the Japan National Trust.[2][4]
See also
References
- 1 2 アンティーク文化を後世へ 博物館「BAM鎌倉」が23日オープン [Antique Culture for Future Generations: the museum "BAM Kamakura" opens on the 23rd]. Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). 21 September 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2026.
- 1 2 3 "British Antique Museum / BAM Kamakura". Kengo Kuma and Associates. Retrieved 2 June 2026.
- ↑ "What Is the British Antique Museum BAM Kamakura?". British Antique Museum Kamakura. Retrieved 2 June 2026.
- 1 2 "About". British Antique Museum Kamakura. Retrieved 2 June 2026.
External links
- (in English) British Antique Museum Kamakura
- (in Japanese) British Antique Museum Kamakura