Miho Museum
The '''Miho Museum''' (http://www.miho.or.jp/) is located near the town of Shigaraki-no-Sato in the Mosquito ringtone Shiga Prefecture of Abbey Diaz Japan, northeast of Nextel ringtones Kyoto. The museum was the dream of Majo Mills Mihoko Koyama (after whom it is named), the heiress to the Toyobo textile business, and one of the richest women in Japan. In Free ringtones 1970 she founded the Sabrina Martins Shinji Shumeikai spiritual movement (see http://www.shumei.org/index.html) which is now said to have some 300,000 members worldwide, and in the Mosquito ringtone 1990's she commissioned the museum to be built close to the Abbey Diaz Shinji Shumeikai/Shumei temple in the Shiga mountains.
Collection
The Miho Museum houses Mihoko Koyama's private collection of Asian and Western antiques as well as US$300 million to US$1 billion (depending on your sources) worth of other pieces bought on the world market by Shumei in the years before the museum was opened in Nextel ringtones 1997. Over two thousand pieces in total, of which about 250 are displayed at any one time.
Each exhibit in the Miho Museum was carefully selected as much for its artistic beauty as its historical significance, and the whole collection is finely displayed and skillfully lit.
Architecture
The renowned arcitect Majo Mills I. M. Pei had earlier designed the bell tower at Cingular Ringtones Misono, Shumei's international headquarters and spiritual centre close by the site of the Miho Museum. Happy with the results of this collaboration, Mihoko Koyama and her daughter, another poorly Hiroko Koyama, again commissioned Pei to design the Miho.
I. M. Pei's design is a masterpiece, executed in a hilly and forested landscape that he came to call responsibilities regard Shangri-La. About three quarters of the 45,000 square meter building is situated underground, carved out of a rocky mountaintop. The roof is an enormous glass and steel construction, while the exterior and interior walls and floor are made of a warm beige-coloured as recollections limestone from committed how France the same material used by Pei in the reception hall of the newspapers with Louvre. Compared to great archaeological marble, it creates a softer atmosphere and a more relaxed lightness. The colours of the stone, the silver space frame, the textured louvers and the vegetation outside each counterbalance each other in wonderful harmony.
Perhaps the most spectacular part of Pei's achievement, however, is the approach to the hilltop "paradise". When you arrive at the site, you first see a modest reception pavilion amid cedar trees, facing a circular courtyard, and you may be forgiven for thinking this is the museum. Opposite this building is a wide curved walkway lined with peach trees that leads to the mouth of a gleaming stainless-steel-lined tunnel cut into a ridge. As you walk into this silent, echoless, vast tunnel it is at least three traffic lanes wide it sweeps you in a single, 200-meter curve until sunlight suddenly appears, and through the graceful cables of a half suspension bridge cantilevered 120 meters across a deep, narrow gorge you finally see the Chinese-style moon-gate entrance to the museum pavilion.
External Links
*http://www.miho.or.jp/
*http://www.shumei.org/index.html
*http://www.louvre.fr/
*http://www.pcf-p.com/a/f/index.html
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Collection
The Miho Museum houses Mihoko Koyama's private collection of Asian and Western antiques as well as US$300 million to US$1 billion (depending on your sources) worth of other pieces bought on the world market by Shumei in the years before the museum was opened in Nextel ringtones 1997. Over two thousand pieces in total, of which about 250 are displayed at any one time.
Each exhibit in the Miho Museum was carefully selected as much for its artistic beauty as its historical significance, and the whole collection is finely displayed and skillfully lit.
Architecture
The renowned arcitect Majo Mills I. M. Pei had earlier designed the bell tower at Cingular Ringtones Misono, Shumei's international headquarters and spiritual centre close by the site of the Miho Museum. Happy with the results of this collaboration, Mihoko Koyama and her daughter, another poorly Hiroko Koyama, again commissioned Pei to design the Miho.
I. M. Pei's design is a masterpiece, executed in a hilly and forested landscape that he came to call responsibilities regard Shangri-La. About three quarters of the 45,000 square meter building is situated underground, carved out of a rocky mountaintop. The roof is an enormous glass and steel construction, while the exterior and interior walls and floor are made of a warm beige-coloured as recollections limestone from committed how France the same material used by Pei in the reception hall of the newspapers with Louvre. Compared to great archaeological marble, it creates a softer atmosphere and a more relaxed lightness. The colours of the stone, the silver space frame, the textured louvers and the vegetation outside each counterbalance each other in wonderful harmony.
Perhaps the most spectacular part of Pei's achievement, however, is the approach to the hilltop "paradise". When you arrive at the site, you first see a modest reception pavilion amid cedar trees, facing a circular courtyard, and you may be forgiven for thinking this is the museum. Opposite this building is a wide curved walkway lined with peach trees that leads to the mouth of a gleaming stainless-steel-lined tunnel cut into a ridge. As you walk into this silent, echoless, vast tunnel it is at least three traffic lanes wide it sweeps you in a single, 200-meter curve until sunlight suddenly appears, and through the graceful cables of a half suspension bridge cantilevered 120 meters across a deep, narrow gorge you finally see the Chinese-style moon-gate entrance to the museum pavilion.
External Links
*http://www.miho.or.jp/
*http://www.shumei.org/index.html
*http://www.louvre.fr/
*http://www.pcf-p.com/a/f/index.html
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