Inside the world's first coronavirus museum exhibition, featuring takeout menus and leaflets of canceled events to commemorate life during the pandemic

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• A museum exhibition commemorating the coronavirus pandemic has opened in Japan.
• The Historical Museum of Urahoro, in Hokkaido, has collected around 200 items from local communities since February.
• Among the items are documents showing children how to prepare for online teaching, instructions for making a homemade face mask, a pile of takeout menus, and advice for attending a funeral.
• Both the Museum of London and the The New York Historical Society have also been collecting for their own exhibitions.
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The coronavirus pandemic is by no means over, but the first exhibition commemorating the crisis has opened in rural Japan.

The Historical Museum of Urahoro, a small town in Hokkaido, has amassed a small collection of items that reflect what life was like for people in the region during the pandemic.

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