While some may carp at the idea of an Art Aquarium, those who love goldfish will get a kick out of Japan’s latest museum, in Nihonbashi, Tokyo as a popular touring exhibit gets a permanent home and more fish.
The idea that people will come to see thousands of goldfish, from common to exotic, circling in large tanks has been a seasonal winner for fourteen years, but open only in summer. It will now, in its permanent home feature seasonal exhibits in the tanks and seasonal menus in its cafe.
The exhibit area is about three times larger than previous spaces, and is divided into themed display areas such as the Goldfish Forest, where pillars filled with water and fish are lined up to be the trees of a forest or Courtesan Procession, with the displays based on an Edo-period red light district.
