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Selected as the winner of the 1st “Japanese Association of Museums Award”

Kitanagoya City Museum of History and Folklore “Showa Era Lifestyle Museum”

This award is “a system that allows up to two museums per year to be honored for their significant contributions to the promotion of Japanese museums and their outstanding achievements that serve as a model for other museums” (*).
 The Chihiro Art Museum (Azumino, Tokyo) and the Kitanagoya City Museum of History and Folklore have been selected as the first award winners. The awards are scheduled to be presented at the National Museum Convention in autumn.
 The reason for the award was as follows: “As a local public museum, the museum was quick to engage in projects using the reminiscence method for local elderly people, utilizing its collection of items used in daily life during the Showa era. In addition, the museum fulfills its role as an engine for passing on local culture from one person to another, and functions as a place for intergenerational exchange in the community, with a long-term vision and plan for the continuation of the project. (*).

We would like to create new approaches in the “new daily life” by seeking new ways to coexist with the prevention of the spread of COVID-19, especially by reminiscence method and being a communication-oriented museum.

(*) Japan Association of Museums, Museum Studies, Vol. 55, No. 5, 2020 “From the Japan Association of Museums: Establishment of the Japan Association of Museums Award and Selection of the First Awardees (Announcement)

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2nd floor lobby / topic exhibition corner The exhibition has been changed.

September 19, 2019

"Electrical Waves and Heating Appliances" Exhibition

“Electrical Waves and Heating Appliances” Exhibition

The exhibition in the topic exhibition corner in the lobby on the 2nd floor has been changed.
The theme of this time is “Electrification Waves and Heating Appliances”, and we are exhibiting a collection of heating appliances around 1955, when the waves of electrification spread rapidly in our daily lives.
The photo shows a transitional electric appliance from traditional folk implements to electric appliances, in which a heater that used to use charcoal as a heat source has electrified the heat source while maintaining the basic structure and form. The left is a comparative exhibition of kotatsu and electric kotatsu, and the right is a comparative exhibition of brazier and electric brazier. _Ito