２０１８年４月２１日にオープンしました。
それまでずっと猫たちと暮らしてきて、猫をかけがえのないパートナーとするオーナーが長年集めて
きた珠玉のコレクションを他の猫を愛する皆さんにも楽しんでいただけたらと、東大寺裏の緑豊かな
場所でひっそりと開館しました。小路を入ったとても静かな所にあります。
近くには、東大寺の戒壇院や二月堂、講堂跡など、また依水園や吉城園などの若草山を借景にした
名園もあり、特に春の桜の頃や秋の紅葉の頃は夢幻のように美しい界隈です。
美術館の玄関前にも桜や紅葉が植えてあります。
鹿もやって来ます。玄関前の紫陽花を食べられてしまいましたが・・・・
２階建ての築９４年の古民家をリフォームした小さな美術館ですが、オーナーの作品の他、
オーナーが長年コレクションしてきた日本や諸外国の猫に関わる名品が展示してあります。
や小説、エッセー、コミックなどが揃っています。
また、オーナーのハンドメイドの作品やオーナー選りすぐりの猫グッズ（ビンテージ品含む）や
美術館のポストカードなども販売しています。
あらゆる種類の猫たちに囲まれて、ここでゆったりした非日常の時間を過ごしていただければ
この上ない喜びです。
「人生の艱難辛苦から逃れる道はふたつある。音楽と猫である。」
（アルベルト・シュヴァイツァー）
March, 2019 The Catship Museum opened on April 21, 2018.
The owner of the museum , who has lived with many cats, precious partners of her life, wishes other feline lovers to enjoy her valuable collection and started the Catship Museum at the serene place full of green. It stands quietly down a narrow alley. In the vicinity of this museum, you can visit Kaidan-in, Nigatsu-do, and the site of an ancient lecture hall of Todaiji. In addition to them, there are carefully planned and well kept gardens called Isui-en and Yoshiki-en from which Wakakusa-yama hill can be observed as part of the gardens. The Catship Museum stands in the midst of such historic places which are fantastically beautiful at the season of cherry blossoms in spring and also of colored maple leaves in fall. In front of the Catship Museum, there are a cherry-blossom tree and maple trees! Wild deer, which are descendants of a messenger deer for the god of Kasuga-shrine, are regular visitors to the museum. They enjoyed eating up our hydrangea! The museum building is a reformed 94-year-old second storied house. It is small but is filled with hand-made artworks created by the owner of the museum and her collection of great artworks of Japan and of overseas. Among the exhibits, a complete set of gacha of cats which are now very difficult to purchase. They are very elaborately made and amusing. Artworks on display change from time to time. The museum has a small library corner of picture books, novels, essays and comic books which are all related to cats. You can purchase the owner's handmade goods, shawls and bags dyed with natural material and hand-woven by the owner of the museum, goods related to cats including vintage materials selected by the owner of the museum, and photo postcards of the Catship Museum. The Catship Museum is made to offer opportunities the visitors to enjoy the pleasurable time surrounded by artworks featuring all kinds of cats. Albert Schweitzer wrote that there ate two ways to escape from troubles and difficulties: they are music and cats.