Yamato Group History Museum Kuroneko Yamato Museum

The Yamato Group History Museum, also known as the Kuroneko Yamato Museum, is a facility established to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Yamato Group's founding.
This history museum, which showcases the 100-year history and future initiatives of the Yamato Group, was established within the Yamato Konan Building, a next-generation hub for the group. It brings together a variety of functions, including a history museum, a research institute exploring the future of logistics, a training center for human resource development, and a café supporting the social independence of people with disabilities, all centered around a distribution center.

This museum boasts a unique spatial structure befitting a logistics company, where visitors can trace 100 years of history and the changing times as they descend through a spiral displays space created above and below the spiral roadway around the building's perimeter where transport trucks travel. The museum overlays this with the "path" that the Yamato Group has taken, dividing visitors into four eras from its founding to the present. While experiencing the changes of the times through the cityscapes, offices, and lifestyles of the time, visitors can relive 100 years of Yamato Group growth by encountering the "visually displays" struggles in service development and the thoughts of managers and employees embedded within it. The aim was to create displays where space and experience merge.

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