Okaya Silk Museum Silk Fact Okaya

Located in Okaya City, Nagano Prefecture, known as the "City of Silk," the Okaya Silk Museum, "Silk Factory Okaya," is a unique museum unlike any other in the world, offering a variety of experiences from displays of silk reeling machinery dating back to the early Meiji period. Furthermore, with the desire to be a museum that conveys the truth (Fact) about silk factories, silk, and the silk reeling industry, they have invited the Miyasaka Silk Reeling Factory, the only place in Japan where traditional raw silk production methods are still preserved, to the museum, making it a factory museum where visitors can experience the spirit of craftsmanship that is in the DNA of Okaya.
Our company provided comprehensive support, from schematic design, working drawings, interior administration, and construction, to schematic design, working drawings, and construction supervision for building renovations.

[Our representative]
Project Manager: Masanori Yokoyama
concept design Director: Yoichi Miyakoshi
design administration: Eiji Kirioka
Planner: Tatsuro Noguchi
Designer: Tomoki Fukano
Product Directors: Koichiro Takahashi, Atsushi Okuda

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

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

【customer's voice】

This museum was created with the hope of conveying the history of Okaya's raw silk industry, which has made a name for itself worldwide as "Silk Okaya," and to be a museum where visitors can contemplate and create for the future, a wish that was realized by NOMURA Co.,Ltd.. The structure consists of an entrance area where visitors can learn an overview of Okaya's history, a museum area that traces the history of Okaya as a silk-making city through machinery and materials, and an adjoining Miyasaka Silk Reeling Factory where actual silk reeling takes place.
displays are based on a black and white color scheme, with a clean and well-defined layout, demonstrating excellent concept design. The overall balance of displays, the balance between stillness and movement, is well-maintained, resulting in a museum unlike any other in the country. Visitors have unanimously praised the easy-to-understand displays, expressing their desire to return.

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