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Design Concepts

Wind, Light, Water and Plant Life Rooted in the Earth

The ever-changing phenomena of nature are important elements of the museum architecture, just as much as stone and concrete. The entrance is filled with outside light. A corridor is open to pleasant breezes. The café looks out on the water of the canal. The Roof Garden contains lawns and luxuriant foliage. The space of the museum changes in a variety of ways with the passage of time and the transition of the seasons, offering visitors new possibilities of discovery and the joy of creativity.
Design：NIHON SEKKEI, INC., Kengo Kuma

Openness and Protectiveness

The museum architecture is basically composed of two buildings, one on the west and one on the east of a canal that runs between them. The western building, known as the Gallery Building, functions in a very open way. It contains the main entrance, gallery spaces, an event hall, and atelier for the use of the public. The eastern building, known as the Art Museum Building, contains office space, research facilities, storage rooms, an entrance for taking artworks in and out of the building, and galleries for temporary and permanent collection exhibitions.

Integration of Plants and Architecture

The art museum is located next to Nagasaki Seaside Park and functions as an integral part of the park. Vegetation is planted on mounds of earth in the Gallery Building. The roof is covered with a garden, which includes grass and other kinds of plants. Continuity is created between the vegetation in the park and that in the museum. The roof garden also gives visitors a way to move from the inside of the museum to the outside world. The environment inside and outside of the museum is characterized by greenery reflected in water, and we hope that visitors will enjoy this simultaneous experience of art and nature.

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Art Museum Building １F

収蔵保存部門

大型トラック２台を収容可能な作品搬出入口、作品の性質ごとに３室に分割された収蔵庫、写真撮影室や保存修復室などが集約されています。

管理研究部門

館長室、事務室や研究室など、管理部門と研究部門を集合させた効率的な室構成となっています。

Canalside Gallery

Facing the canal, the Canalside Gallery is used as a multi-purpose exhibition space, and also as a spacious, relaxing space.

波佐見焼の陶板

美術館棟1階と2階を繋ぐ階段には、長崎県産である波佐見焼の陶板を用いた間接照明があります。陶板は全部で280枚。陶板の後ろから照明をあてることで、柔和な光が演出されています。

Art Museum Building ２F

Permanent Collection Gallery

The total area of the Permanent Collection Gallery is approximately 1,100 ㎡ . Consisting of five rooms, the Gallery is used mainly to exhibit the museum’s collection works associated with Spain and Nagasaki. With ceiling heights from 3.5 m to 5.0 m, the rooms are designed to display a wide range of sizes of artworks. Next to the Gallery is a patio in which the sunlight pours down gently, creating a very comfortable atmosphere.

Temporary Exhibition Gallery

The total area of the Temporary Exhibition Gallery is approximately 950 ㎡ . Constituting two rooms with ceiling heights of 5.8 m and 5.0 m, respectively, the Gallery is used to hold large-scale exhibitions, including the museum’s temporary exhibitions and other museum’s touring exhibitions. One of the rooms features skylights and glass walls that allow natural light to come in, creating a unique atmosphere for a broad range of exhibitions.

Gallery Building 1F

Lobby

Featuring glass curtain walls on three sides, the stairwell, approximately 12m high, creates a cozy, spacious atmosphere to attract visitors. This lobby is used to hold events, such as regular concerts.

Museum Shop

The Museum Shop sells a wide varieties of products, including colorful items produced by the Museo del Prado, Spain, as well as the Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum’s original items demonstrating distinctive characteristics of Nagasaki.

Reference Corner

At the Reference Corner, visitors can search a tablet computer data-base for information on the museum’s collections, and read books and magazines on the arts, including those on Museo del Prado. No fees are charged.

Public Gallery

The Public Gallery is used to exhibit artworks created by people of Nagasaki. The area of the Gallery is approximately 940㎡ and the height to the ceiling is 4.5 m. The Gallery can be separated into three spaces by movable partitions, enabling various scales of exhibitions to be held there. If needed, an exhibition panel can be positioned to block sunlight coming from the Gallery’s floor-to-ceiling window facing the canal.

Gallery Building 2F

Atelier

The Atelier has a floor-to-ceiling window facing to the south, allowing the sunlight to fill the space. Along with the garden in front of the Atelier, it is used to hold workshops and many other creative activities.

Bridge Corridor / Café

Located on the “Bridge Corridor” over the canal, this café is an ideal place to enjoy lunch or tea time whilst admiring Nagasaki’s scenery and the glistening water.