JR East to expand Omiya Railway Museum

[miyakoji]

In 2017, JR East will update and expand its Railway Museum near Omiya Station. It will be the museum's 10th anniversary, and 30th anniversary of the establishment of the company itself.

 

Built south of the existing structure, the addition will raise the museum's total display space to 14,800 square meters, about 1.5 times its present size.  There will be various themes including work, history, the future, and travel in the context of railways, in addition to the main hall's themes of rolling stock and science, presenting a variety of view points on the history of railways and people.

 

The "work" themed area will include E5 and 400 series shinkansen rolling stock, as well as a new E5 simulator with a dramatic, high resolution panorama-sized screen.

http://railf.jp/news/2014/11/06/173000.html

[railsquid]

One of the things I like about that museum is that it has a simple, elegant logo, not some silly "character".

[bikkuri bahn]

It's good they will separate the history and rolling stock zones, to (hopefully) make the displays more concentrated and specific.  I know driving simulators are all the rage right now, but I wish they would make a corner with a CTC simulation of how a railway deals with scheduling conflicts in the case of bad weather, accidents, etc. Also, a corner on building railway stock from blueprint to rollout, which of course can be created with the cooperation of J-Trec.