Fukuoka City Museum
History museum in a 1989 world's fair pavilion, home to Japan's national-treasure gold seal.
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This guide to the Fukuoka City Museum traces the building's earlier life as the main pavilion of Fukuoka's 1989 Asian-Pacific Expo, before it reopened as a museum the following year. It moves between the hands-on Mitaiken Lab, where visitors try on costumes and instruments from across Asia, and the quieter halls holding a small gold object dug up by a farmer in 1784. Listen for how the same building holds a room built for touching everything alongside one object nobody is allowed near.
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