The “Tottori Sand Dune Sand Museum” is one of the world's museums that specializes in sand and water sculptures and sand statues. Thirty years ago, the art of sand sculpture began to enter Japan from the United States. Since that time, sand statue sculptor Katsuhiko Chaen has led this field. Since the opening of the "Art Museum of Sand", I have been supervised the works as a producer. 
An exhibition of sand sculptures that began as part of the revitalization of Fukube Village, which merged with Tottori City in 2004, opens as an art museum. There is no glass case, so it is also attractive that you can watch the work in the near future.
The concept is "world travel with sand"
At the museum, the concept of “traveling with sand” is selected each year on the theme of one country or region to produce a sand statue. He exhibited sand sculptures for about 8 months from spring, and then closed for 3 months and a half for the next production. It displays the history and culture of the country, symbolic events and great nature, including the "Italian Renaissance" exhibition in the first year of the museum's opening, and displays them over time. 
Left "The Skyscraper of NY"
Right "Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon" and "Washington across the Delaware River"
The 10th show in 2017 will be "Traveling in the World with Sand-America-Visiting the World's Great Nature and Freedom Country-". Under the supervision of Mr. Chae who takes charge of overall design and composition of works and sculptures, it was created by sculptors from nineteen countries, nineteen countries, with world-class sand statue sculptors. Sand statues represent the great people of the United States and the great nature, Hollywood films and jazz.
One of the main exhibits, "Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon," is a large work 20 meters in length. The four presidents who have made history such as George Washington and Theodore Roosevelt, and the Grand Canyon on both sides and a real waterfall in the image of the Niagara Falls. Dynamic works unique to the United States are organized.
In addition, sand statue sculptures of the best selling novel "Ankle Tom's hut", "Gold Rush" where discovery of gold mine became a social phenomenon is also sand statue. At the NY Skyscraper, you can join the Empire State Building and so on with that Trump Tower! If you go around one round you will feel like you've explored America over time and space.
A sight of 20 large sand statues about 7m long and about 3m high, soaring, is a masterpiece. More than 400,000 people visit the museum every year to see its powerful and realistic sand image. 
Museum appearance
Every morning at 9:30 am, there is also a guided tour, so make sure to make a sand image at the noon workshop, and also recommend watching the sand image lighted up after the evening. Please enjoy the beautiful shape of the sand statue sculpture.
