The Silk Fact Okaya Museum opened in Okaya, Nagano Prefecture, known as the "Silk Town." It is a unique museum in the world where visitors can experience various things, displays silk-reeling machinery from the early Meiji period. In addition, in order to create a museum that conveys the truth about silk factories and the silk-reeling industry, the museum invited the Miyasaka Silk Mill, the only one in Japan that still uses traditional raw silk production methods, to the museum, and has become a factory museum where visitors can experience the manufacturing spirit that can be said to be the DNA of Okaya. We provided comprehensive support for schematic design, working drawings, interior administration, construction, and schematic design, working drawings, and construction supervision of the building renovation. [Our staff] Project manager: Masanori Yokoyama concept design director: Yoichi Miyakoshi design administration: Sakae Kirioka Planner: Tatsuro Noguchi Designer: Tomoki Fukano Product directors: Koichiro Takahashi, Atsushi Okuda <Awards> ● Encouragement award at the 34th Display Industry Awards (2015) ● Selected for the Japan Space concept design Awards 2015 [Customer feedback] Nomura Co., Ltd. embodied our desire to create a museum that conveys the history of Okaya's raw silk industry, which made its name known around the world as Silk Okaya, and that allows NOMURA 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 machines and documents to introduce the silk capital of Okaya, and the Miyasaka Silk Mill, where the actual silk reeling site is located. The displays are based on black and white, and are designed to be sharp concept design. The balance of displays as a whole, the balance of stillness and movement, and the museum is unique in the country. All visitors have said that displays are easy to understand and that they want to come back again. Areas of responsibility: schematic design displays design, displays working drawings, displays construction, schematic design, detailed architectural renovation working drawings, interior administration