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  • OUR WORK 
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    • History Matters
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    • Virtual tours
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    • Tour
    • Stay with Us
  • LEARN 
    • Chronology
    • Patients and Victims
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    • 10 Things to Know
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  • Collections

    Collecting, conserving, and presenting items related to Minamata is one of our utmost concerns.

    The Minamata Disease Museum counts on approximately 100 panels of photographs and explanations.

    Many of them come from the victims of Minamata disease and their supporters, whose stories and words helped to change public awareness on environment, pollution and democracy all over Japan.

     

    Click on the images for more information

    Entrance of the Museum
    A cage for cats experiment
    "Kugai jodo” by Michiko Ishimure (English translation "The Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow")
    Sludge water collected in Hyakken
    Fishing Equipement
    Museum Shop
    Museum Tour
    Figures of Fishing Boats
    Before Minamata Disease Museum
    Minamata Disease in literacture and films.
    Self-imposed Fishing Ban
    Flags of Anger
    Mercury Analyzer
    Negotiation's Cloths weared by demonstrators.
    Carbide Lamp
    A Tape Recorder and an Iron Bar
    First Trial Judgement's text
    Compensation Agreement
    Pots used for octopus catch, in Japanese called "tsubo". The fishermen lay them on the bottom of the sea for a while. Then, as an octopus slips into, the container is retrieved with its catch.

Minamata Disease Museum / Soshisha

34 Fukuro, Minamata city, Kumamoto pref,

867-0035, Japan

Contact us

info@soshisha.org

TEL: (+81) 0966-63-5800

Open: 9:00 - 17:00 (public holiday and Sunday 10:00 - 16:00)
Closed: Saturday

 

© Soshisha 2016

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