Shitara-cho Okumikawa Folk Museum

Nurtured by the rich nature of the mountainous area of Aichi Prefecture, the Shitara-cho Okumikawa Folk Museum inherits the message of the old building, "Conveying the life and heart of our hometown." Attached to the newly established Michi-no-Eki Tara, it has been refurbished as a core facility for community development. The displays space is filled with local treasures and numerous valuable materials that have been collected since the Taisho period. The displays space of the grid made of cypress wood from Shitara-cho, which is easy to update, can be used as a spatial infrastructure unique to the region in the future.
Visitors can trace the diversity of living things, archeology and history from the scenery of the rich forest, and be surrounded by a rich collection of folk customs, and learn about the wisdom of living that has been passed down to the present day. We aimed to raise awareness of sustainable lifestyles by creating and expressing relationships between behavior and awareness changes based on the relationship between creators and users.


[Social Issues/Customer Issues/Requests]
1) Creation of facilities by expanding the use of materials produced in Shitara Town, which is positioned in the town's comprehensive plan and forest development plan
2) With the aging of the old local displays displays have been inherited.
3) Located at the gateway to the south, guides to the north and resources in the area, and revitalization as a field museum
4) Reuse of the hand-made displays of the old local museum and visualization of the spirit of “Yui” that has been passed down
5) Video archiving of regional resources, including the Nationally Designated Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property "Tamine Dengaku"


【solution】
The displays room of the Okumikawa Folk Museum follows the guidelines of Shitara Town. The folk materials on displays preserve and inherit a collection of folk implements made from wood from the Edo, Taisho, and Showa periods. Considering the awareness and value of the rich forest of people who are connected over 100 years, we concept design it as a space unique to the region to send a message.
The displays begins with a diorama that reproduces the scenery of a rich forest, and traces the natural history, archaeology, and history of the diversity of living creatures and geology, and learns about the resources of the region, while the folklore reproduces the life of the past through scene modeling. It expresses the spirit of “yui” and makes the folk implements collection feel lively. Through the displays, we touch on the "hometown life and heart" and convey the wisdom and ingenuity of our predecessors who survived the harsh mountainous area.


【customer's voice】
With your wealth of experience and technology, you have realized a wide range of issues, such as the inheritance of the old building's "conveying the hometown life and heart", the composition of easy-to-understand displays themes, the updating of the displays, and the use of materials produced in Shitara Town. I was.


<Our project members>
[Sales and Project Management] Tetsuya Kurita, Teruko Takai
[concept design Direction] Shunsuke Shimizu
[Planning/ design, layout] Koichi Ido, Yoichi Miyakoshi, Nobuyuki Endo
[Production and construction] Koichiro Takahashi, Takeshi Suezaki