Ishinomaki City Museum designed by NOMURA Co.,Ltd.

A revitalization project to relocate and newly construct a museum facility damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake. After the earthquake, Ishinomaki City planned to develop a cultural complex including a theater and a museum to serve as a new cultural center in the city, then the Ishinomaki City Museum, succeeding the Ishinomaki Cultural Center, was developed.

The museum's new concept is "Ishinomaki - nurtured by the great river and sea.” The characteristic experience in the exhibition space features a focus on "scenery" as a new way of being a history museum, and the exhibition rooms have sporadic display of photographs portraying the scenery of the seven districts in Ishinomaki City, conveying the message that even the casual passing of time as the clouds drift by and the night falls can construct a page in the history of the city. The exhibition room lets the visitors follow the traces of Ishinomaki citizens who have spent their lives in the beautiful landscapes since the Jomon period.

The Soshichiro Mori collection room, introducing Ishinomaki's predecessors inherited from the former Ishinomaki Culture Center, and the Eikichi Takahashi exhibition also show the behind-the-scenes story of the rescue of damaged artworks and materials with the cooperation of cultural facilities across Japan, to convey the difficulty and importance of passing on cultural assets to the future generation, as well as the scars of the damaged condition caused by the earthquake. The exhibition also provides an opportunity for visitors to learn about the damage caused by the earthquake, including the materials that were daringly left in their damaged state.

It can also provide an opportunity for visitors to appreciate the "feelings for the place" that were embedded in the artworks and materials, while describing the background and days that Mori and Takahashi spent in Ishinomaki.

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