Past Special Exhibitions

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LOVE STORIES -Why you are not alone.

The word 'LOVE' has a special power that somehow touches each of us.
Yet in the whole system of life, we human beings are just one of many life forms made from combination of atoms.
What does it mean then, for this "combination of atoms" to fall in love, find a partner, and try to share its life sometimes with the promise "till death do us part"?
Starting from this simple question, we have examined "Love" not from the usual emotional or conceptual aspects, but from the scentific perspective. And through this analysis, we have discovered that "Love" is a miracle of life, as well as a unique and special behavior found in human beings.
Through experiencing this exhibition "LOVE STORIES", you will be able to rediscover yourself as a single 'life form' as well as emotional 'human beings' with words and feelings. It may also shed new light on how you may view your current/future partner next to you.
We hope you will enjoy this exhibition, our Earth's stories of finding a partner: from pre-humans to human beings.

LOVE STORIES Content

Photograph: Yoichi Nagano

Prologue: Why we are not alone
Chapter 1: The story of life forms in Love
"Chaotic world" - more than 'men' and 'women'?
"Parting for encounters" - why there are two sexes
"Seduction" - attracting a partner
Chapter 2: The story of homo-sapiens in love
"Through time and space" - when the pre-humans become human beings
Chapter 3: The story of human beings in love
"To be in touch with ones heart" - weaving words for love
Epilogue: The End of the Beginning
"Our future Love Stories"

Art Product by
Mr. Takeshi
Ishiguro

The condition of creating a cloned mouse from somatic cells Image provided by: Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama (RIKEN)

Clownfish transforming into a female from male. Image provided by: Professor Tetsuo Kuwamura (Chukyo University)

Model of the exhibition site

Date :

April 23 - August 15, 2005

Venue :

1F Event Zone, Miraikan

Admission Fee :

Adults: 900 yen, 18 years old and under: 350 yen
(Groups 800 yen/ 300 yen

Planning and Producing :

Scientific Advisors: Fumitoshi Ishino (Professor of the Medical Research Institute of Tokyo Medical and Dental University), Yasuo Sakuma (Professor of the Department of Physiology and Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Program of the Nippon Medical School), Mariko Hasegawa (Professor of the School of Political Science and Economics of Waseda University), Daisuke Yamamoto (Tohoku University, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Professor)
Space Designed by: Hashimoto Yukio Design Studio
Art Direction & Designed by: Tatsuya Ariyama
Photograph: Yoichi Nagano
Art products: Takeshi Ishiguro
Music: Michiharu Shimoda (Silent Poets)
Fabric design by: Yoko Ando (NUNO)
Lighting direction by: Masanobu Takeishi (ICE)
Image and interface design by: Takashi Yamaguchi
Animation: 6nin

Sponsored by :

Miraikan

Contact :

National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan)
2-41 Aomi Koto-ku Tokyo, 135-0064
tel 03-3570-9151
fax 03-3570-9150
URL http://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp/