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Fire Fly Hotel: Handmade Museum Special Report
Seeking Futuristic View for Local Living and Nature - A Review on Handmade Museum-
Held by Hiroshima Eco-Museum Study Group on the final day of the event, June 24, 2001. Supported by Higashi Hiroshima Academic City Exchange Conference

[The Final Day of Handmade Museum]
Those who saw newspaper came for the final day of the event from Hiroshima and Fukuyama City. A family jumped in Goemon Bath. The bath was also display to experience.

Summary of Water Survey

Scene of Water Survey2001/5/20
[Review on Pre-Event (Water Survey)]
A seminar from Hiroshima University joined the beginning of the event as water survey. The university students helped questionnaire survey and management of display. Water survey was conducted with a local school, Shiwahori elementary school, and its results were shown at the display. Interesting results of maps which visualized numerical value of BOD of the river was shown. One of good reviews was cooperation with the elementary school.

[Results of Questionnaire]
The interim report on questionnaire for the event came from Asano-sensei teaching at the seminar. The number of response was 138 (finally 151). Asuuming one out of four visitors responded, the number of the visitors must be 600. From the response, findings are:
- The average age was 30s, although it tended to be 50s for the event like this.
- The half of visitors came from Saijo area, the centeral Higashi Hiroshima, and the other mainly came from Hiroshima city.
- Many responded rich Close Nature and interesting thatched roof houses. They must have values to local resource
- At the open-ended questions, there were many positive response. But a question on problems of the event recieved many responses: "Rather small packed," "It was hard to understand the relations between the event and community" and "I don't understand what this event is for."
[Feedbacks from the Community]
- It is important to build the relations among people as experience and participation (a local teacher).
- There are many problems like labor even though local volunteers want to imporve walking roads around the river which fire fly come up.
- The event like this tends to be conducted by people out of the town.
- The small handmade display was effective to the community.
[Dinner Party]
We cooked chinese style of fried fish which university students fished for dinner. Ma-po Dou-fu was also served by a local Tofu store. All events finished calmly with cleaning house and taking a picture.

Acknowledgment
I want to thank you for all supported and cooperated: volunteers at community, Shiwa Construction (provided farming field), Higashi Hiroshima Salun Club, Ass. Prof. Toshihisa ASANO (Hiroshima Univ.), Hiroshima Eco-Museum Study Group, Higashi Hiroshima Nature Study Group
For more information on this report, e-mail to:kobohayashi(a)hotmail.com((a)->@)
Operation Reports
Making of Shiwahori ECO-Museum
Handmade Museum: Report on "Let's Play with Fishes in the River"
Fire Fly Hotel Nature School: Observation of Fire Flies and Experience of Goemon Bath!
Review on Problems and Effects of the Handmade Museum
Some episodes of Shiwahori ECO-Museum

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