The Shimane Arts Center is a facility that combines the Shimane Prefecture Iwami Art Museum and the Shimane Prefecture Iwami Arts Theater.
This facility, as a point of convergence for arts and culture in the Iwami area, facilitates reciprocation between fields such as the visual arts, music, and theater, and sponsors opportunities to appreciate diverse, high quality arts and culture.
In addition, while supporting arts and culture indigenous to the Iwami region, it also aims to cooperate with the community in creating and cultivating new art.

Collection from Iwami Art Museum
Collection Policy: To collect a wide range of outstanding works of art from Japan and abroad, regardless of region, field or age, from antiques to contemporary art, including painting, crafts, sculpture, photography, clothes, etc. In order to give the museum a distinctive character, it was decided to focus on the following categories.
1.Items Connected with MORI Ogai
2.Fashion
3.Art from around Iwami