Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum (Okimyu)

This guide to the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum in Naha starts with its walls: pale Ryukyu limestone cut to look like the stones of a gusuku fortress that no longer needs defending. It traces the odd path of money behind that disguise, from a 1965 payment by the American administration still ruling postwar Okinawa, through a 1973 expansion funded by Tokyo, to a bigger successor building shelved when prefectural finances collapsed in the 1990s. Look closely at the stacked blocks near the entrance, cut and set only in the two thousands.