Aomori Museum of Art / Jun Aoki & Associates

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Text description provided by the architects. Aomori Museum of Art is situated next to an excavation site of the Sannai Maruyama ruins. These ruins are widely respected as an important heritage of the Jomon period (10,000 - 300 BC), not only since the established theory, agriculture had not yet been developed was abandoned because planned cultivation, such as chestnut, was revealed. But also because the community already systematized their agricultural methods which could be seen by the hugeness of the colony scale. Using this cultural heritage as the core element, Aomori Prefecture decided to forge a basis of art culture and determined its beginning in building an art museum on the spot which directly adjoins the ruins.