[右上]菅野陽《夜のおつかい》1957年、[中上]菅野陽《月と子供》1960年、[中下]浜田知明《初年兵哀歌(歩哨)》1954年 ©Hiroko Hamada 2025/JAA2500160、[右下]浜田知明《風景》1967年 ©Hiroko Hamada 2025/JAA2500160
(すべて茅ヶ崎市美術館蔵)

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The museum opened in April 1998 in Chigasaki, a city blessed with a mild climate. The museum is surrounded by a lush green park with pine trees and was once the home (Manshoen) of Otojiro Kawakami and Sadayakko Kawakami, a Meiji-era shingeki actor known for his "Oppekepee-bushi" (a Japanese folk song), and later a villa owned by industrialist Yasusaburo Hara.

The museum currently houses approximately 2,000 works of art, mainly by artists and works associated with Chigasaki. In recent years, the museum has actively collected works by emerging artists based in Kanagawa and is striving to create a collection that is full of Shonan's unique character. The museum also holds ambitious exhibitions of foreign and young artists.

Yo Sugano and Chimei Hamada— Before the Dawn of Etching