Miraikan
The Miraikan ( Japanese日本 科学 未来 館, Nippon kagaku miraikan ) is Japan's national museum for futurology and innovation . It is located in the Odaiba district of Tokyo's Kōtō district on an artificial island in Tokyo Bay. It opened on July 9, 2001.
Among other things, a visualization of the data from the Japanese seismograph network, technical studies of robots and cars , but also objects with educational character, for example on genetics, will be exhibited . There are several exhibits on space travel , including a chronological picture gallery of all people (and also some animals such as Laika ) who have flown into space. Among them is the Japanese astronaut Mamoru Mōri , the current head of the Miraikan. The 6 meter diameter Geo-Cosmos globe is the symbol of the museum. It is a high-resolution screen sphere composed of 10,362 OLED elements from Mitsubishi Electric in Nagasaki .
The museum is a popular destination for Tokyo school classes.
On March 9, 2015, German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Miraikan.
The building of the Miraikan
Entrance area
Exhibits and the digital globe "Geo-Cosmos" in the background
Study of an eight-seat electric car
globe
Asimo demonstration
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp/en/sp/tsunagari/geocosmos.html
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/user/MiraikanChannel
Coordinates: 35 ° 37 ′ 9 ″ N , 139 ° 46 ′ 36 ″ E