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      • WELCOME
      • OUR WORK 
        • About Us
        • Collections
        • Our Archive
        • History Matters
      • VISIT US 
        • Virtual tours
        • Visit Info
        • Tour
        • Stay with Us
      • LEARN 
        • Chronology
        • Patients and Victims
        • The Minamata Convention
        • 10 Things to Know
        • 10 conhecimentos sobre a doença
        • Downloads
      • PHOTO GALLERY
      • DONATION
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      • WELCOME
      • OUR WORK 
        • About Us
        • Collections
        • Our Archive
        • History Matters
      • VISIT US 
        • Virtual tours
        • Visit Info
        • Tour
        • Stay with Us
      • LEARN 
        • Chronology
        • Patients and Victims
        • The Minamata Convention
        • 10 Things to Know
        • 10 conhecimentos sobre a doença
        • Downloads
      • PHOTO GALLERY
      • DONATION
      • …  
        • WELCOME
        • OUR WORK 
          • About Us
          • Collections
          • Our Archive
          • History Matters
        • VISIT US 
          • Virtual tours
          • Visit Info
          • Tour
          • Stay with Us
        • LEARN 
          • Chronology
          • Patients and Victims
          • The Minamata Convention
          • 10 Things to Know
          • 10 conhecimentos sobre a doença
          • Downloads
        • PHOTO GALLERY
        • DONATION
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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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