Hakone Open Air Museum

Now to the highlight of our trip... the Hakone Open Air Museum!

This is a great museum with mostly outdoor exhibits.  We were fortunate that the clouds had lifted long enough to see of the pieces of artwork in natural surroundings.

Here's a bunch of my favorites!  I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!

Man and Pegasus, and check out the child playing on the giant egg down below.  I told you they loved eggs in Japan!

Big Hand - KG wants a big high 5!

My Sky Hole
(oddly enough, there were 2 works of art with this same name, and they were completely different!)

Can't remember the name of these lovable clowns.

Garden of Stars

Tarynn navigates through the natural labyrinth.

Inside the labyrinth.
It reminded me of a corn maze, but if I stood on my tip-toes I could see over the edge and cheat to find the exit!!

Woods of Net

Inside the Woods of Net.  I wish I were 11 again! 

Climbing on these ropes looked awesome... comfy like a giant hammock!

Picasso Pavilion features over 230 works be Pablo Picasso, with a focus on ceramics.

This is a sweet moving sculpture, like a giant weather vane, and I totally want one in my own yard some day. 

Symphonic Sculpture doesn't look like much from the outside, but wait until you see what's inside...

Kerri and Tarynn in the stained-glass wonder!

Then we climbed up 5 stories to get the full view.

Nice view from the Symphonic Sculpture.

This was one of my favorites :)

This sculpture is frightening similar to one I saw in the city center of Krawkow, Poland.

Guess what?!  Same artist!!

Close

For some reason this one made me smile!

Foot bath.  The Japanese really love their onsen (hot springs)!

The Hand of God

Miss Black Power

Curved Space

Plastic balls for kids to climb in.  Can you imagine how hot it must be in there?!

Fish Bones

and if you don't know the artist on this one... shame on you!!

Alexander Calder is an American artist most famous for inventing the mobile. 

His works are very distinct: large, curvy, and generally red or black.

Calder sculptures and mobiles are featured in Washington D.C., Chicago, Grand Rapids, NYC, and pretty much every other American city and abroad!!

Weeping Woman

She's the female version of Narcissus.  She is weeping in a pool of water because she can see her reflection and is in love with it, but she will never meet this beautiful woman.  I love that the hair is made of plants, too :)

Cute horsies in the Children's Area!

Rainbow Row and Tree Man, also in the Children's area

Next, we're going to try to finish the "Hakone Loop" and get a view of Mt. Fuji!