The Miho Museum in Shiga Prefecture was designed by I. M. Pei, with Leslie E. Robertson Associates as structural engineer, for Mihoko Koyama and her daughter Hiroko Koyama. The infobox gives 1997 as established, and the text says it was commissioned in the 1990s and opened in 1997. No construction dates are given, and Pei revised the galleries during construction.
Pei called the design Shangri-La, set in a forested landscape. The article names no formal style. The museum covers about 17,400 square meters, and roughly three-quarters is underground, carved from a rocky mountaintop. It has a glass-and-steel roof and walls and floors of beige French limestone.
The Shumei Cultural Foundation operates it, and about 3,000 pieces are held, with 250 to 300 on display. In 2001 the museum acknowledged holding a sixth-century Bodhisattva statue stolen from Shandong in 1994 and agreed to return it in 2007. The article gives no hours or admission.
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