Museum
Osaka Science Museum
Hands-on science exhibits and a giant planetarium dome housing Japan's first Zeiss star projector.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Osaka Science Museum follows a boy who kept coming back: young Osamu Tezuka, decades before he became the father of modern manga, drawn again and again to a curved-mirror illusion and to Japan's first planetarium projector, installed here in 1937. It traces how those childhood visits echoed later in his own science-fiction manga, and what happened to the old museum after fifty years and roughly eleven million visitors. Look for the projector itself, standing inside the newer building on Nakanoshima island.
This audio guide was created using AI.