The , abbreviated as ''IdcN'', is a museum and exhibition hall located in

Sakae, Nagoya is an area in Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. It refers to the areas around Sakae intersection, Sakae Station on the Nagoya Municipal Subway and Sakae Station on the Meitetsu Seto Line. Sakae is in the heart of Nagoya and is, along w ...

, central

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

History

The

World Design Exhibition 1989 The World Design Exhibition 1989 (Japanese: 世界デザイン博覧会), also abbreviated "Design-Haku", was an event held at the Nagoya Congress Center July 15 - November 26, 1989. It was hosted by the World Design Organization. Other venues in ...

was held in Nagoya. The museum was established in 1992 and opened in 1996 in the Nadya Park skyscraper. Exhibited are leading designers and artists of conceptualisation, form and function. The pieces range from the

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ...

to the present. Works by

Isamu Noguchi was an American artist, furniture designer and Landscape architecture, landscape architect whose career spanned six decades from the 1920s. Known for his sculpture and public artworks, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Grah ...

and

Arne Jacobsen Arne Emil Jacobsen, Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects, Hon. FAIA (; 11 February 1902 – 24 March 1971) was a Danish architect and furniture designer. He is remembered for his contribution to functionalism (architec ...

are included, as well as product design icons such as the

Mini Cooper Mini Cooper may refer to: *Performance Cars of the original Mini series with uprated drive train and brakes, called the "Mini Cooper", made by the British Motor Corporation and also the successors 1961–1971, and 1990–2000 *Cars of the Mini (mar ...

. The Loft department store for shoppers interested in design is also located in Nadya Park. Access by public transport is

Yabachō Station is an underground metro station located in Naka-ku, Nagoya, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, operated by the Nagoya Municipal Subway. It is located 2.3 rail kilometers from the terminus of the Meijō Line at Kanayama Station (Aichi), K ...

on the

Meijō Line The is a subway line in Nagoya, Japan, part of the Nagoya Municipal Subway system. It is a loop line that runs from Kanayama, via Sakae, Ōzone, Nagoya Daigaku, and back to Kanayama, all within Nagoya. The Meijō Line's color on maps is ...

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* Design museums Art museums and galleries in Nagoya Art museums and galleries established in 1992 1992 establishments in Japan {{japan-museum-stub