{"id":5094,"date":"2009-11-23T00:51:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T15:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=5094"},"modified":"2009-11-23T00:51:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T15:51:56","slug":"holiday-tangent-delightful-maure-memorial-museum-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-hokkaido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=5094","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Tangent:  Delightful Maure Memorial Museum in the middle of nowhere, Hokkaido"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/handbook.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1298\" title=\"HANDBOOKsemifinalcover.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/HANDBOOKsemifinalcover.jpg\" alt=\"Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants, and Immigrants to Japan\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/welcomestickers.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1704\" title=\"welcomesticker\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/welcomesticker-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\\\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.francajapan.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1705\" title=\"franca-color\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/franca-color-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Foreign Residents and Naturalized Citizens Association forming NGO\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/tshirts.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1701\" title=\"joshirtblack2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/joshirtblack2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\\\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/joshirtblack2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/joshirtblack2.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html#japanese\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1700\" title=\"jobookcover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jobookcover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\u300c\u30b8\u30e3\u30d1\u30cb\u30fc\u30ba\u30fb\u30aa\u30f3\u30ea\u30fc\u3000\u5c0f\u6a3d\u5165\u6d74\u62d2\u5426\u554f\u984c\u3068\u4eba\u7a2e\u5dee\u5225\u300d\uff08\u660e\u77f3\u66f8\u5e97\uff09\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html#english\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1699\" title=\"japaneseonlyecover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/japaneseonlyecover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"JAPANESE ONLY:  The Otaru Hot Springs Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemabstruso.de\/strawberries\/main.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2735\" title=\"sourstrawberriesavatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sourstrawberriesavatar.jpg\" alt=\"sourstrawberriesavatar\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?cat=32\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4921\" title=\"debitopodcastthumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/debitopodcastthumb.jpg\" alt=\"debitopodcastthumb\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nUPDATES ON TWITTER:  arudoudebito,<br \/>\nDEBITO.ORG PODCASTS now on iTunes, subscribe free<\/p>\n<p>Hi Blog. \u00a0As a holiday tangent, I would like to pass along these brochures from the Maure Memorial Museum. \u00a0In the middle of East Boofoo, excuse me, Maruseppu, northeastern Hokkaido, is this hidden little gem of a place, a converted schoolhouse, with all sorts of lovely little artworks by handicapped people, as well as by other artists, that is definitely worth a look somehow, somewhere. \u00a0It also has a wonderful collection of butterflies, for some reason, and other bugs on pins (along with the occasional ammonite and other weird stuff) that will delight all ages. \u00a0Admission is free (there is a donation box you can ignore; I didn&#8217;t). \u00a0If you have any occasion, go out there and see. \u00a0Introduced me by James in Monbetsu just before it closed for winter. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Shizuoka<\/p>\n<p><em>(click on image to expand in browser)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mauremuseum002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1123\" height=\"816\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5248\" title=\"mauremuseum002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mauremuseum002.jpg\" alt=\"mauremuseum002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mauremuseum002.jpg 1123w, https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mauremuseum002-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mauremuseum002-1024x744.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1123px) 100vw, 1123px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mauremuseum001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1123\" height=\"816\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5249\" title=\"mauremuseum001\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mauremuseum001.jpg\" alt=\"mauremuseum001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mauremuseum001.jpg 1123w, https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mauremuseum001-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mauremuseum001-1024x744.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1123px) 100vw, 1123px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a holiday tangent, I would like to pass along these brochures from the Maure Memorial Museum.  In the middle of East Boofoo, excuse me, Maruseppu, northeastern Hokkaido, is this hidden little gem of a place, a converted schoolhouse, with all sorts of lovely little artworks by handicapped people, as well as by other artists, that is definitely worth a look somehow, somewhere.  It also has a wonderful collection of butterflies, for some reason, and other bugs on pins (along with the occasional ammonite) that will delight all ages.  Admission is free (there is a donation box you can ignore; I didn&#8217;t).  If you have any occasion, go out there and see.  Introduced me by James in Monbetsu just before it closed for winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,31,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-tangents","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}