Hakone "Rene Lalique" Museum — Attraction in Hakone

This museum has one of the best collections of Rene Lalique's glassware outside of Portugal's Gulbenkian. The exhibits are well organized in a time series covering Lalique's evolution from handcrafted artisanal work into his glassware factory, with broad representative samples of each era. While it lacks some of the impact of Gulbenkian's Art Deco depth, it is a much more educational and formal curation of Lalique's work.

Unfortunately all of the text is in Japanese only. The museum curator was kind enough to waive the "no cell phones" policy though to permit the use of Google Lens' translation...

The people at the front sold us an unnecessary expensive ticket while not informing us about a special sale (Odakyu free pass) for all of the museums of the area. Even after we let them know, we want to visit all the museums in the surrounding and have the free pass available.

Either they were sleeping or they were not interested in selling another companies product.

Museum itself is mediocre (might be because I am European that the exhibition is quite underwhelming).

Not a great...

For art, art decor, artist, and designers who love glass design, this is an hidden gem in Hakone. With an extensive collection of lalique objects from the less well known jewellery collections to their interior designed custom made objects to home items such as Vase and lamps. Unfortunately like most Japanese museums they are geared towards Japanese visitors, but you can still marvelled at the creation. Take home the book, as a reference, you...