“Traveling” to me, is seeing something you’ve never seen, eating something you’ve never tasted, and experiencing something that will change your values. In that sense, you don’t necessarily need to go far to experience something new. “Traveling” can be simply reading a book, watching a movie or taking to people.
There is one exhibition on right now where you can get a “traveling” feeling. As a part of biennial public-art exhibition, Daikanyama Installation, MOT: MUSEUM OF TRAVEL has created a space where you can obtain a “new perspective” through various talk events, seminars and exhibits.
I came across this exhibition by accident. Strolling down Daikanyama area, loads of pictures pinned down on the wall attracted my attention. The pictures on the wall were gathered from the public, based on the theme “pictures that you took during overseas travel” and were grouped by country.
Gazing on them, you can tell many areas have distinctive colors (such as khaki colors from desertic districts, Crayola colors from tropical districts) and even the levels of sunbeams varied. It was fun to compare areas, because you rarely get a chance to view this many numbers of places at once.
Underneath the pictures, souvenirs from various countries were displayed. Belgium souvenirs “Manikin Piss,” “Russian doll” form Russia, “Piranha” from Colombia… Well I guess, like many Japanese people are not wearing “happi coat” or “yukata” everyday, these souvenirs shows certain “Stereotypes” attached to that country. Anyway, those were just interesting!
There were also participatory exhibits, such as “Marking Mapping.” There were three global maps on the wall. Each of them had different titles, “the country I would love to visit, ” “the country I’ve never been to” and “the country where I dreamed about in my childhood.” And you put the sticker on the appropriate places. It was interesting to see the stickers on the three maps showed slightly different geography. They even served different drinks of the world at the cafe in the courtyard. I had Russian tea.
Visiting MOT, it came as a fresh reminder that the there were so many countries, and the ones I know were only part of the world. It is a shame to admit, but there were countries I’ve never heard of or didn’t know the location of. I guess Japan might be the same. For many oversea people…”Japan? Where is it?”
MOT: MUSEUM OF TRAVEL
Saturday, November 5th - Sunday, November 27th
Place: HILLSIDE WEST
Address: 13-13, Hachiyama-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Written by Kyoko
Museum of Travel (MOT) is open for an only limited time at HILLSIDE WEST in Daikanyama.
loads of pictures on the wall!
plates tell you where those pictures were taken. These are form Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Colors on the map show the nu mber of picture they could get for this exhibition. Red=more than 90. Tangerine=89-50. Light Orange=49-25. Yellow=24-1. White=0.
Souvenir from Russia, Russian doll
Belgium souvenir, Manikin Piss
Colombian souvenir, Piranha!
from UK, books about cats.
travel-related books
There are tag-shaped slips on the shelf. You can write about your impression of the book on them and share your feeling with other visitors.
One of participatory exhibits. \"Marking, Mapping\" This one is \"the country I would love to visit.\" You put the red sticker on the places you want to visit.
These yellow stickers show \"the country I've ever been.\"
Another participatory exhibits. Choosing one photo from here, you have to find same image from the hundreds of pictures on the wall. So, which country is your picture from? You can use binocle.
Cafe in the courtyard. You can order drink from various countries.
Having Russian tea in the tent. This small and cozy space leads naturally to chat with total stranger.
Ms. Iwakami who work for MOT painted banners on her nails. This is also one of their participatory exhibits. You can pick up a country's name and banner through fun nail paintings.
The shopping cart called Museum Shop. Each bag contains small banner. You can pick one country. MOT will make the arrangement so that later you will get tiny gift from that country. In appreciation, you will also send small gift through MOT. It is like an international gift exchange.
Very colorful pictures. Many countries have distinctive colors. The sunbeams are different, too.
It is hard to tell in this image. But right one is the photo of Sushi. And left one shows person with chopsticks. BUT, these photos are from UK.
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Fascinating to see how similar ideas come to align eachother… I am working on a personal project on the state of traveling. This museum makes me dream and wish for teleportation (again) to go and see it… greetings to all from Belgium!
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