The Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum

The Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum is a prefectural facility in Futaba Town, Fukushima Prefecture which opened on September 20, 2020. In addition to the exhibition showing the reality of the unprecedented triple disaster in Fukushima caused by the earthquake, tsunami, and TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident as well as the progress to reconstruction, storytelling lectures are given four times a day by residents who experienced the disaster first hand. Aside from exhibition tours, lessons for disaster prevention and mitigation are disseminated both domestically and internationally for the future through training programs, surveys, and research.