Enjoy your stay home time with art pieces in high resolution or 3D and virtual tour available online from museums in Fukuoka City.

Fukuoka City Museum

Fukuoka City Museum provides an online service to share its collection including the national treasure Gold Seal and the Renowned Nihon-go, a spear with long blade, sung in a folk song Kuroda-bushi usually appreciated in the permanent exhibition. Recommended seven artworks such as Black-lacquered Peach-shaped Helmet with Crest of Large Horns and Soshichi-yaki Incense Burner are exhibited in 3D enabling viewers to look from every angle. AR is also available through smartphone and tablet.

◎Enjoy Fukuoka City Museum in 3D at Home

At Google Arts＆Culture you can experience a virtual tour of Fukuoka City Museum with a simple control. It is just like you are actually visiting the museum.

◎Google Arts & Culture – Fukuoka City Museum

Click here or scan for audio guide.

◎Fukuoka City Museum related sites:
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Website

Fukuoka City Museum “Ouchi Museum” program at the official web site:
http://museum.city.fukuoka.jp/topics/ouchi-museum/

Fukuoka Art Museum

Fukuoka Art Museum streams online content on the blog, YouTube, etc. During the Fukuoka Museum Week from 18 to 30 May 2021 the staff introduces recommended artworks almost every day on YouTube. You can see behind the scenes of creating an artwork and changing exhibits not usually opened to the public. A craft-making workshop is also available online.

★”Untitled” by KYNE, a Mural Painting in the Fukuoka Art Museum, 2020

★Moving in and out of Buddha statues over Beethoven’s Sonata quasi una Fantasia

★Pottery and porcelain: lecture for beginners

★Place Space“Seeds of Life” – Let’s make a paper sumo wrestler!

◎Fukuoka Art Museum related sites:
Blog
Youtube
Facebook
Instagram
Twitter
Website

Fukuoka Art Museum Online Programs at the official web site:
https://www.fukuoka-art-museum.jp/topics/10540/

Fukuoka City Science Museum

Fukuoka City Science Museum unfolds a project OUCHI DE KAGAKUKAN for people staying at home. Many content including simple experiments you can try at home and a 360-degree planetarium are available online.

The 360-degree VR movie of the Dome Theater (Planetarium) provides an immersive world of experience. Try with your smartphone to enjoy a large scale image of the universe with music and guide narration.

★“Soratsunagi” (relay essay on stars and universe) by Kayoko Tanno, Museum Curator
This is a series of storytelling by astronomy experts nationwide. Fukuoka City Science Museum curator Kayoko Tanno shares a story of “Māui and the Giant Fish,“ a famous myth from South Pacific.

★Dome Theater Planetarium 360° VR Live: COSMIC DANCE

※The 360° VR movie is available through YouTube application.

★Dome Theater Planetarium 360° VR movie: Guided tour in a starry sky “Spring Triangle”

※The 360° VR movie is available through YouTube application.

Easy-to-do experiments and handmade crafts at home are introduced by video. Enjoy stay home time with your family to try those following the instruction and using patterns.

★Fukuoka City Science Museum How to Make a Dandelion Bottle

★Fukuoka City Science Museum a Balancing Dragonfly
Download the pattern.

◎Fukuoka City Science Museum related site:
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YouTube
Website

Fukuoka City Science Museum Online Program OUCHI DE KAGAKUKAN:
https://www.fukuokacity-kagakukan.jp/news/2020/04/-de.html

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum or FAAM posts the art at home program #OUCHI DE AJIBI on SNS. A variety of content is available in its six lineups.

1. Enjoy our collection at home (Twitter, Instagram)
2. Enjoy our collection at home / virtual tour (Facebook & YouTube）
3. Getting to know about Asian art at home (Blog & Facebook)
4. Art book information from the Art Cafe (Facebook & Twitter）
5. What are you up to at home? (Asian artists version) (Blog & Facebook)
6. Play with art at home! (Blog, Facebook, & Twitter）

Out of these, the most recommended is the “What are you up to at home?” series where artists who have stayed in Fukuoka before for its residential program or exhibition is introduced.

It tells how the artists on lockdown back home are doing including their creative activities. They share their own experiences which enables you to know about situations of other Asian countries from different perspective.

◎Blog / #OUCHI DE AJIBI — What are you up to at home? (Asian artists version)
Episode 8: Jupiter Pradan (Artist, Nepal)
Episode 7: Le Hien Minh (Artist, Vietnam)

FAAM is the only museum in the world that systematically collects and exhibits Asian modern and contemporary art. It is easy to go to the online gallery tour by Google Arts & Culture. Staying home, take a plenty of time to appreciate the unique artworks of Asian neighbours from a different angle.

◎Google Arts＆Culture — Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

◎Fukuoka Asian Art Museum related sites:
Blog
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Website

◎Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Online Program #OUCHI DE AJIBI
https://faam.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/topics/10623/

Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art

Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (abbreviated as Kenbi) has opened the “Dokodemo Kenbi” site in March 2021. It unfolds the Fukuoka Prefectural “Virtual” Museum of Art where you can enjoy the collection at your pace and “edukenbi” offering an educational opportunity to get closer to art with fun.

★Fukuoka Prefectural Virtual Museum of Art
https://virtualmuseum.fukuoka-kenbi.jp/

Fukuoka Prefectural Virtual Museum of Art mainly introduces works of Yajuro Takashima. Enjoy the masterpiece paintings of our collection.

★edukenbi（えでゅけんび）
https://edukenbi.fukuoka-kenbi.jp/

Can I know more about the collection at home? I wish to create something after seeing artworks. What is working at art museum like?…… In response to those questions and wishes, the “edukenbi” site provides children and adults with content to learn together about Kenbi.

There are interviews with artists, making a handcraft, both in video, and worksheets you can download as well.

◎Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art related sites:
Twitter
Website

◎Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art “Dokodemo Kenbi“
https://fukuoka-kenbi.jp/dokodemo/

Yokanavi hopes that you found the online art programs lots of fun. Please seek on to other facilities to find out many more interesting programs. New discoveries will lead you to enjoyable time at home.