Museum Library
We appreciate your understanding and cooperation for our Health and Safety Measures:
- Limit of 14 persons at a time in the library
- Reservation is recommended
- Hand washing/sanitizing, and social distancing are required. See Health and Safety Measures
The Museum Library in HAYAMA is an admission-free reference library. Despite being underground, a wide window opens up to a magnificent view of Sangaoka. Why not further the experience of the exhibition in this tranquil and comfortable library?
- Business hours: 9:30–17:00
- Copying services until 16:30.
- Closed day: Same as those for galleries at HAYAMA.
Reading Room
Past exhibition catalogs of our museum as well as other national museums, books destined for children (picture books, etc.) and various art magazines are at your disposal for viewing.
There are also special documentation materials on display related to the ongoing exhibition at HAYAMA, KAMAKURA and KAMAKURA ANNEX.
Museum Library comprises approximately 104,000 books (As of March 2022).
- The resources can be used only in the reading room.
- There are brochures of regional exhibitions and events at the entrance of the reading room.
Using the Library
Its resources include books and periodicals on fine arts, exhibition catalogs, and so on. The Museum Library supports and contributes to art-historical research.
Copying services
The materials can be photocopied except for the rare or fragile and those protected by the copy-right law.
Black and White copies: 10 yen per page / Color copies: 40 yen per page.
Staffs are available to direct your requests for permission to take photos of research resources.
Special Collection
There are also several special collections of art publications and documents which used to be owned by artists, art historians, and art critics.
- YAMAGUCHI Hoshun Library - Book collection of Japanese style painter YAMAGUCHI Hoshun (1893-1971), who had spent his postwar days at Hayama
- YASHIRO Yukio Library - Book collection etc. of art historian YASHIRO Yukio (1890-1975)
- NAKADA Sadanosuke Library - Book collection of art critic NAKADA Sadanosuke (1888-1970)
Contact
Telephone: 046-875-2800
Inquiry/Comment form
Some pages are only displayed in Japanese. Please see "Usage guide: Inquiry form" as reference.