FUTABA, Fukushima -- A museum of the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear meltdown opened on Sunday in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, in a bid to convey the lessons of the disaster.
After the disaster, the prefectural government collected about 240,000 items, including traffic signs that were washed away by the tsunami, and school bags left at an elementary school building in the nuclear evacuation zone.
The evacuation order following the March 11, 2011 accidents at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s nuclear power plants was partially lifted for the town of Futaba in March.
About 150 of the items collected were selected and placed on display in the museum to show the details of the residents' evacuation and their recovery efforts following the accident. Storytelling activities by disaster victims are also conducted at the museum.
The museum was originally scheduled to open this summer so that the launch would coincide with the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
The opening of the museum, however, had been postponed due to delays in preparations amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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