Okaya Silk Museum Silk Fact Okaya

The Okaya Silk Museum “Silk Fact Okaya” opened in Okaya City, Nagano Prefecture, known as the “Silk Town”. It is a unique museum in the world where you can experience a variety of things from the displays of silk reeling machines from the early Meiji era. In addition, from the desire to be a museum that conveys the facts of silk and the silk industry, we invited the Miyasaka Silk Mill, which is the only traditional raw silk production method in Japan. It is a factory museum where you can experience the manufacturing spirit that can be said to be Okaya's DNA.
We provided total support, including schematic design, working drawings, interior administration, construction, and schematic design, working drawings, and construction supervision for architectural renovation.

[Person in charge of our company]
Project manager: Masanobu Yokoyama
concept design Director: Yoichi Miyakoshi
design administration: Sakae Kirioka
Planner: Tatsuro Noguchi
Designer: Tomoki Fukano
Product Director: Koichiro Takahashi, Atsushi Okuda

<Award History>
●"34th Display Industry Award (2015)" Encouragement Award

● Selected for "Japan Kukan concept design Award 2015"

【customer's voice】

This museum conveys the history of Okaya's raw silk industry, which made its name known all over the world as Silk Okaya, and from this, NOMURA has realized our desire to be a museum where we can think and create the future. It consists of an entrance area where you can get an overview of the history of Okaya, a museum area where you can follow machines and materials to introduce the city of Okaya, and an actual silk reeling site, Miyasaka Silk Mill.
The displays is organized in a clear and sharp manner based on black and white, and is also excellent in concept design. The overall balance of the displays, the balance between stillness and movement, was designed as a unique museum in Japan. We have received unanimous opinions from visitors that they would like to visit again because of the easy-to-understand displays.

Responsibilities: schematic design of displays, working drawings of displays, construction of displays, schematic design of building renovation, working drawings of building renovation, interior administration