The Kobe Earthquake Museum is the short version of The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Memorial Museum which is part of the Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institute.
It is near the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art along the waterfront in Kobe.
It was designed by Showa Sekkei, who also designed the nearby Fashion Museum and opened in 2002.
Supposedly the unusual double-skinned glass structure is built to withstand an earthquake of any magnitude..
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The earthquake memorabilia placed around Kobe are some of the most interesting sights to see in the area! When I lived in Osaka I frequently went to Kobe just to walk around and look at these items. Good on you for covering this largely ignored topic.
ReplyDeleteThere's also a good museum on Awaji Island that shows the actual fault - the museum is built around it.
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