Artworks in outdoor museum

Old residence of Takeo Arishima, author

Outdoor concert hall
PMF(Pacific Music Festival ) official HP

Art park Museum (official HP)

In the south of Sapporo, less than 1hour’s ride from Sapporo station by subway or bus brings you to a very spacious attractive museum, covering about 40 ha., called “Art Park Museum “with indoor and outdoor museums, concert halls both indoors and outdoors ,studios for training courses or artists’ studios opened in 1999. This park is actually a forest with good walking paths with moderate slopes, pond, stream for us just to enjoy strolling as if we are far from the city staying in the resorts blessed with beauty of nature. Feeling the comfortable breath of each season, we can realize the energy of creator, songs of birds or insects, lives of plants or flowers, scent of wind, change of water-flow.

How about visiting this attractive museum especially on the clear holidays ? Besides the exhibition of the indoor museum changing its main theme periodically, there are varieties for us to enjoy here. The outdoor museum dotted with artworks, sometimes changes their attraction in the move of the wind or the change of the weather. In the concert area outdoors, nothing is so appealing to enjoy the great music sitting on the lawn with something to eat or drink under the sky. One of the popular ones in this open-air concert is held during PMF ( Pacific Music Festival ) session, nicknamed “Picnic Concert”. Besides, Jazz, Noh-drama or Plays and etc. are to be held. Art-market is sometimes opened, collecting goods made by promising artists of pictures, pottery, various kinds of handicrafts.

There are many classes for people to learn art here, such as glass-blowing, weaving, woodwork pottery or handicraft every month. Especially for national holidays or in summer, many classes are open for children.

(July 1, 2007)