Night Museum "PRISON BY NIGHT : Light & Echoes"

About this event

This is a night museum opening only on winter nights at the Nara Prison Museum, which preserves Meiji-era red brick architecture. The theme is "At night, the prison begins to speak." It consists of three parts: lighting that brings out the building through light and shadow, light, video, and sound installations in the preserved wing featuring 48 solitary confinement cells, and projections displaying more than 5,000 messages from the "Prison Postcard Project." Taku Sato serves as art director, with Seiichi Hishikawa handling nighttime spatial direction and video. It is ideal for those who wish to see the prison architecture showing a different face from daytime. Centering on nighttime lighting that enhances the beautiful architecture of the Former Nara Prison, an Important Cultural Property, productions layering light, video, and sound unfold across the preserved wing with its row of 48 solitary cells and the outdoor plaza. Visitors can experience the architecture and more than 100-year history of the Former Nara Prison from new angles through contemporary light, video, and sound. Furthermore, in homage to a menu item that prisoners once looked forward to during winter, "Zenzai Hot Chocolate" is offered for a limited time at the on-site cafe.

Venue

Nara Prison Museum by Hoshino Resorts

18 Hannyaji-cho, Nara, Nara 630-8102