Museum of Fine Arts in Hakone was founded by Pola - Japanese manufacturer of cosmetics. In addition to the museum, a group of companies Pola Orbis also founded in 1979, the Foundation of traditional Japanese culture, and in 1996 - Foundation for the Arts. With the help of these organizations Pola Orbis deals with the study and promotion of Japanese art.

Hakone Museum was built in two years and was opened in September 2002. Like many buildings of cultural and educational destination in Japan, a museum was built as part of the symbiosis of man-made objects from nature in Hakone. The museum is located in the forest area of ​​the National Park Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park on the background of the 300-year old beech trees and a fragment of a landscape. To minimize interference with the natural environment, much of the museum's premises, it was decided to place underground.

The museum's collection includes 9,500 works of art that have been collected for forty years Suzuki Tsunesi - owner Pola Group, the late .  The collection presents about 400 paintings by European artists, including French Impressionists and contemporary Japanese artists who wrote Western-style .  The museum has three paintings by Van Gogh, as well as paintings by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Cezanne, Pablo Picasso .  One of the Japanese authors represented in the museum is tsuguharu foujita, who was known in Europe under the name of Leonard Fujita .  It belongs to the so-called "Paris School" .  In 2013, the collector, whose name has not been named, donated to the museum two previously unknown works of masters - the paintings of "Sirens" and "grotesque" .  Tsuguharu foujita at the beginning of the XX century moved from Japan to Paris, where he lived in the bohemian quarter of Montparnasse, and was familiar with Henri Matisse and Amedeo Modigliani .  In his work, he used the traditional technique of drawing with ink and techniques of European painting .  Tsuguharu foujita considered one of the most expensive Japanese artists .