The Aomori Prefectural Folk Museum (Honmachi, Aomori City, TEL 017-777-1585 ) celebrated its 50th anniversary on September 20th.

The facility is a general museum that exhibits materials related to Aomori Prefecture's culture, history, and traditions under the theme of ``Talking about the past of our hometown, thinking about the present, and looking toward the future.'' It is said that over 100,000 items have been collected over the past 50 years. In addition to permanent exhibitions, we offer a variety of learning opportunities such as seminars and on-site classes. In 2010 (Heisei 22), the number of visitors was 2 million.

The special exhibition room "Large Hall" was built in 1931 as the Aomori Branch of the 59th Bank (later the former Aomori Bank main branch), and in 2004 it was designated as a nationally registered tangible object. It is registered as a cultural property (building). Currently, it has been temporarily closed since February 2021 because some parts of the building fell below the target values ​​of seismic diagnosis standards.

The facility opened a special website on September 20th, the opening day. In addition to making introductions and pictorial catalogs of special exhibitions held over the past 50 years available for free download, the museum also publishes memories and episodes of local museums that have been invited by the public. The call for episodes is open until March 29, 2024.

Kimiyoshi Masuda of the facility's curatorial division says, ``Currently, the construction period and reopening date are undecided, but we hope that you will take a look at the special website we created on the half-century anniversary of the museum's opening and wait until it reopens.''