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, including displays of silk-reeling machinery from the early Meiji period. In addition, with the desire to be a museum that conveys the truth about silk factories, silk, and the silk-reeling industry, we invited the Miyasaka Silk Mill, the only one in Japan that still retains traditional raw silk production methods, to become a factory museum where you can experience the manufacturing spirit that can be said to be the DNA of Okaya.
We provided total support for construction project, including schematic design schematic design, detailed working drawings, working drawings interior administration, construction, and architectural renovation.

[Our Person in Charge]
Project Manager: Masanori Yokoyama
concept design Director: Yoichi Miyakoshi
design administration: Sakae Kirioka
Planner: Tatsuro Noguchi
Designer: Tomonori Fukano
Product Directors: Koichiro Takahashi, Atsushi Okuda

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

●Selected for the "Japan Space concept design Award 2015"

【customer's voice】

NOMURA was asked to create this museum to convey the history of Okaya's raw silk industry, which made the city famous around the world as Silk Okaya, and to realize the desire to create a museum that would allow people to think about and create the future from that history. The museum is structured as follows: an entrance area where visitors can get an overview of Okaya's history, a museum area where visitors can explore the machines and documents that introduce Okaya as the silk capital, and the Miyasaka Silk Mill, where the actual silk reeling site is located.
displays are based on black and white, and are arranged in a streamlined, sharp style, with an excellent concept design. The overall balance of displays, between stillness and movement, is excellent, and the museum has been designed to be unlike any other in the country. Visitors have unanimously commented that displays are easy to understand and that they would like to return.

Areas of responsibility: displays schematic design, displays working drawings, displays construction, Architectural renovation schematic design, Architectural renovation working drawings interior administration