MIRAIKAN

Description

Essentials about the Miraikan in brief

Technology fans and people interested in the future should definitely see the National Museum for Future Research and Innovation, or Miraikan for short, during a visit to Tokyo. Opened in 2001, the museum is located in the Odaiba district on an artificial island in Tokyo Bay. The list of exhibits ranges from technical studies of robots and cars to modules of space stations and a visualization of the data of the Japanese seismograph network.

The exhibition at the Miraikan

The Miraikan covers a wide range of different scientific disciplines. Among other things, the museum features a meteorite piece that is believed to have contributed to the extinction of dinosaurs; a screen showing real-time seismic activity in and around Japan; a model of a maglev train; and Asimo, Honda’s famous robot.

One of the highlights of the Miraikan exhibition is the six-meter-diameter Geo-Cosmos globe. The high-resolution screen sphere, which consists of more than 10,000 OLED elements, depicts global weather patterns, ocean temperatures, vegeation and other geographical or socio-economic facts.

In addition to the permanent exhibition, the Miraikan hosts between three and six temporary exhibitions each year on topics at the intersection of art and science.