National Museum of Ethnology

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The moment you step through the entrance, the vast space seems to slowly wrap around you. The height of the ceiling gives off an air as if people of the past had erected an enormous spiritual blueprint here. Even within the quiet stillness of the exhibition rooms, the flow of many cultures and ways of life seems to continue unbroken. Occasional ballad-like sounds echo here and there, and visitors seem to become thoroughly immersed in those lives. Under the soft lighting, the flow of anthropology comes across not merely as exhibits, but as living evidence of time itself. When you lift your eyes at the far end of the exhibition hall, the flow of composition summoned by the light stirs a quiet ripple within the heart.