Exhibit 1: World Heritage: Horyuji (Buddhist Monuments in the Horyuji Area)

• Explore every detail of a World Heritage site; a bonus experience to view what is normally unseen.
• 8K Interactive Museum offers visitors the opportunity to intuitively view cultural properties, including National Treasures at temples such as Horyuji and Hokkiji, via touch screens.
• Open to the public as of March 25, 2020 in the Great Treasure Gallery.

Get detailed views from many angles; a great way to get a fuller appreciation following your temple visit.

Appreciate the detailed design of decorative elements not normally visible on the upper part of structures.

Get an up-close look at faces of Buddhist statues, and truly feel the sculptor’s thoughts and emotions conveyed via the detailed designs.

Exhibit 2: Demonstration test at Tokyo National Museum
—Exhibit titled “A Hands-on Look at Legendary Tea Bowls” shows cultural properties in 8K

Cultural properties appreciation system, using theme of ‘Experience the real thing in 8K’; jointly developed and tested by Sharp, CPCP, and Tokyo National Museum

Demonstration test of cultural properties appreciation system, open to the public at Tokyo National Museum

Tea bowl-shaped controller and actual-size replica of tea bowl

The tea bowl-shaped controller is used to maneuver a tea bowl on the 8K screen

Oido tea bowl, known as Uraku (Important Work of Fine Art), Tokyo National Museum collection

Tokyo National Museum (Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo)

Exhibit 2: Demonstration test at Tokyo National Museum
—Exhibit titled “A Hands-on Look at Legendary Tea Bowls” shows cultural properties in 8K

Exhibit 2: Demonstration test at Tokyo National Museum
—Exhibit titled “A Hands-on Look at Legendary Tea Bowls” shows cultural properties in 8K

• Sharp, the National Center for the Promotion of Cultural Properties (CPCP), and Tokyo National Museum jointly develop new way to appreciate cultural properties.
• 8K Interactive Museum system with voice guide and tea bowl-shaped controller offers a realistic experience that’s almost like holding the actual objects.
• Open to the public from July 29 to August 2, 2020 in the Asian Gallery, Tokyo National Museum.

The tea bowl-shaped controller provides intuitive operation and tactile sensation; it’s an immersive experience that’s like holding and looking at the actual museum piece in your hands.

See the bowl’s underside and get a cross-sectional view, and even see details not visible to the naked eye. It’s a whole new viewing experience—beyond looking at actual museum pieces—that reveals every aspect of the art.

Deepens understanding through text and audio. It makes you want to see the actual works of art and boosts people’s interest in cultural properties.