Tottori Prefectural Museum — Attraction in Tottori

There were two significant parts to his museum. The first was the natural History component which had quite a variety of land, air and water creatures preserved for your edification. I was glad to learn about the very large spiders that live in the sand dunes before I walked across the dunes. It's good to know what to look out for! There was also a selection of historical craft including pots, weaving, rice straw and more. The second exhibition space was for art, and the kogei exhibit up was an amazing display of single pieces from a wide variety of (somewhat local ) artists work in clay, lacquer, metals, and glass. 😍 I was a little sad I couldn't take pictures in that exhibit, but they did have QR codes on many of the pieces which took you to the artist bio and more examples...

We experienced their special exhibit for a few extra yen which was mostly art. My husband and I aren't art people but some of them were really cool to look at. We had a lot better time downstairs, especially in the animal section. Didn't have plaques downstairs in english but google translate helped for the things we were interested in but you'll recognize most without needing Google translate. Perfect thing to do on...

Very nice museum. We checked all exhibitions that were available. They are big and nice! The permanent exhibition is very well made too. Good stuff for kids to learn about the earth and humans. Some data is old but in general is very good. The only thing I didn't like is the poor animal in...