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Cute animals Museum
The Cute animals Museum is an art space where owls and their friends come to life among antiques, and is the first museum in Japan where you can take a good look at cute animals and interact with them like in an owl cafe.
The art space incorporates interior design produced by the British Antiques Museum and paintings by artist Ken Matsuda, and through encounters with , we hope to help you think about the importance of life and coexistence with nature.
Features of CAM
Owls and their friends
Cute animals live in the museum. You can see, touch and enjoy exotic animals including owls. There are 15 kinds of owls, from small owls such as the Scops Owl to the Snowy Owl and large owls such as the Siberian Eagle Owl. There are six kinds of owls, from the tiny Dwarf Rabbit to the Flemish Giant, the largest rabbit in the world. Hedgehogs (pygmy hedgehogs), flying squirrels and chinchillas. Exotic animals such as kinkajous. Reptiles such as iguanas, bearded dragons and leopard geckos.
Interaction
By interacting with the cute animals, you can feel the wonder of nature and the importance of small lives. You can also take photos and post them on your social media.
British antique interior
Cute animals live in a space decorated with real antiques. The British Museum of Antiques, BAM Kamakura, is responsible for the interior design.
Collaboration with artists
Artist Ken Matsuda has created special artworks of the adorable animals at the Animal Museum. These artworks are on display.
Museum merchandise sales
We are offering special sales of our museum's original cute animals goods and Matsuda Ken Art. We have a wide selection of rare animal goods that you can't get anywhere else.
Supporting the UK National Trust
The museum continues the spirit of Beatrix Potter, the author of Peter Rabbit, who supported nature conservation. The rabbits, owls, hedgehogs, and other animals from the story live in an antique space from that era.
Mazda Ken
Born in 1990 in Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture. Graduated from the Department of Early Childhood Education, Faculty of Education, Shimane University.
Creates works with pen and watercolor paints on the main theme of animal symbiosis. Despite having no experience in art, he relies on his sensibility and experience to create works that challenge him to find ways to bring out the vitality of living animals through his paintings. He resigned from the city hall and moved his base to the Kanto region in April 2019, where he began full-scale creative activities. In November 2020, he published "Matsudaken Coloring Book Collection." In July 2021, he will hold a solo exhibition "Michiwarumono" at the Yonago City Museum of Art, and in 2024, he will hold "Matsudaken no Sekai Ten" at Wako Ginza.
When he first moved to the Kanto region, he met Director Dobashi of the British Antique Museum, and as mutual lovers of living animals, he hit it off and created the main poster for the "Cute animals Museum."
British Antiques Museum BAM Kamakura
BAM Kamakura is a museum that conveys the world of antiques to the next generation, and conveys the message that it wants many people to feel the wonderfulness and importance of inheriting things and people.
Inside the museum, there is an exhibition of genuine British antiques with over 100 years of history that the director, Masaomi Dobashi, has collected over many years, and a Victorian era "Sherlock Holmes room" has been reproduced. This time, the director has produced a new "Cute animals Museum" in collaboration with antiques, embodying his love of living animals since childhood.