Collection of materials on future social changes caused by the new Corona Yamanashi Museum June 4, 11:44
The Yamanashi Prefectural Museum, to convey to a posterity the society that has changed drastically due to the spread of the new coronavirus, is changing the society, such as the “cloth mask” that the government distributes to all households and flyers for take-out menus at restaurants. We started to collect the symbolic materials.
At the Yamanashi Prefectural Museum in Fuefuki City, we are trying to convey to future generations how familiar society and people's lives have changed due to the impact of the new coronavirus that has spread worldwide. The spread of the infection began to affect the prefecture, and around the end of February, the staff began to collect things around them little by little.
So far, the government has distributed cloth masks to all households throughout the country, flyers for take-out menus at restaurants, JR timetables with drastically reduced number of trains, and sake brewing companies in the prefecture. It means that we have collected high-concentration ethanol products that we developed as a substitute for.
The museum wants to continue collecting the materials and consider broadly recruiting materials.
Akihiro Morihara, curator of the Yamanashi Prefectural Museum, said, “I think the current state is a historic event once every 100 or 200 years. Because the masks and leaflets that are closest to our lives are often gone, As a museum, I want to keep one page of current history firmly."