Yamato Group History Museum Kuroneko Yamato Museum

Yamato Group History Museum The Kuroneko Yamato Museum was established to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Yamato Group.
This history museum, which conveys the Yamato Group's 100-year history and future initiatives, was opened within the Yamato Konan Building, which was constructed as the group's next-generation base and brings together a variety of functions, including a history museum, a research institute to explore the future of logistics, a training center for human resources development, and a cafe to support the social independence of people with disabilities, with a collection and distribution center at its core.

The museum has a spatial structure unique to a logistics company, with another spiral displays space created above and below the spiral road around the building's perimeter where the transport trucks run, superimposed on the "road" that the Yamato Group has traveled, and visitors can walk down it to trace 100 years of history and the changes in the world. The exhibition is divided into four eras, from the company's founding to the present, and aims to create an exhibition that combines space and experience, allowing visitors to relive 100 years of growth of the Yamato Group by experiencing the efforts of service development in a "visualized displays" and the thoughts of the company's managers and employees that went into it, while also feeling the changes of the times through the cityscapes that were the displays for history, the sales offices at the time, and the state of society and consumers.

We believe that corporate museums in the future will be required not only to transmit information from the company's perspective, but also from the perspective of what to offer through museum experiences and how to connect with society.
In this project as well, through the Yamato Group's 100-year history, we should not only focus on communication with stakeholders, but consider what we can do to create a place for mutual interaction between companies and society. was a big issue.

As we talk about the history of the Yamato Group, which "has grown along with the changes in the lives of our customers and the world," we will look at how the services that everyone knows were born and how they changed people's lives against the backdrop of changes in the times and lifestyles. Through the experience of reliving the process along with the history of the group and thinking together about the richness of the next era, visitors will also be able to look back on the path they have taken and create an opportunity to create a rich life in the future. We aimed to create a place where