This is the "Children's Five Senses Experience Museum"!

The former Nunagawa Elementary School, which closed in 2014, reopened the following year as a facility for the Echigo-Tsumari Art Filed—a place where students could practically learn about local values through subjects beyond the five core academic disciplines, such as physical education, music, home economics, and art. Amid the advancing digital and information age, we significantly renovated the museum’s artworks in 2024 to transform it into the “Children’s Five Senses Experience Museum,” aiming to provide children—the future generation—with opportunities to interact with real materials like soil and trees through their own bodies.We continue to collaborate with artists to develop festival artworks that can be enjoyed not only through sight but also through the five senses, including hearing and touch. Additionally, visitors can experience the artists’ work—which could be described as masterful—and their handling of materials through workshops.

Furthermore, the NUNAGAWA Campus serves as the home base for “FC Echigo-Tsumari,” a women’s corporate soccer team formed through the festival’s network.The players involved in this project—which addresses the challenges of the agricultural sector, where the workforce is shrinking, combined with the difficulties women’s soccer faces in establishing second careers—are also involved in the festival’s operations. Through initiatives such as hosting gymnastics classes for the local community, they are fostering new connections with the region through the lens of sports.

During the Triennale period, you can also enjoy lunch at the adjacent TSUMARI KITCHEN.

▼Special Exhibition Starting April 25

Ayako Fudamoto, "Sponge to Salmon (Nunagawa)"

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▼Past Special Exhibitions

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▼Workshops You Can Take Anytime

Round Sticker Art

You can enjoy creating round sticker art inspired by the traditional Echigo-Tsumari event “Bird Chasing” in a hands-on workshop.

Rinko Matsumoto's "Hoppe" Coloring Book

Let’s try coloring these designs—featuring “Hoppe,” the cat who also appears in the exhibition “The Planet TOLARIS in Nunagawa Campus” held on the Nunagawa Campus—on canvas pouches, eco-bags, and lunch bags. You can carry your own original artwork with you in your daily life.

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-A Rice Field Conservation Project Led by Female Soccer Players-
"FC Echigo-Tsumari"

“FC Echigo-Tsumari” is an agricultural corporate team composed of female soccer players from the city who have relocated to the region to become stewards of the Rice Fields and continue playing soccer. It proposes a lifestyle where women can live in the rural countryside while devoting themselves to the soccer they love, and serves as a problem-solving project aimed at maintaining the Rice Fields—which face a shortage of workers due to depopulation and an aging population—and preserving the rural landscape. Furthermore, FC Echigo-Tsumari will utilize its coaches, trainers, and players to function as a community sports club for local residents, providing opportunities for sports as a means of social interaction and recreation, as well as for maintaining and improving health.

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