5-Days Children's Cultural Science Museum
Hands-on science museum in a decades-old building rated at high risk of earthquake collapse, now slated for renewal.
This guide to the 5-Days Children's Cultural Science Museum in Hiroshima opens with a number: the magnitude of earthquake a 2017 prefectural survey found this building, opened in nineteen eighty, unable to survive. It follows what the city's own 2024 planning documents admit went wrong in the years since that finding, from unreinforced concrete to exhibits unchanged for two decades, while grade-schoolers kept building rockets from straws in its halls. You will hear about the LED-upgraded planetarium still sweeping its beam overhead and the preserved steam locomotive parked outside, untouched by any of it.
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