This exhibition opened the "Gas Museum" in Kodaira City to get to know the history of gas lamps popularized as a symbol of civilization.
Approximately 50 items such as gas lamps used at the street and at home are displayed from the Meiji to the Showa era.

The gas lamp used in a mansion of a businessman, Eiichi Shibusawa, has six glass parts covering the light, and it is gorgeously decorated around it.

There are also indoor lights for the households released in the latter half of the 1950s, gas lamps, which were not used so much due to the spread of electricity, were temporarily deteriorated due to the deterioration of the power situation after the war You can see the situation at the time when it came to be used.

In addition to this, some of the gas lamps used in the Kokonkan that was a social gathering place with foreign countries during the Meiji Era were also exhibited.

Mr. Yutaka Takahashi, Director of Gas Museum, Deputy Director of the Gas Museum said, "I want you to know the attractiveness of gas light and its history."

This "gas light exhibition" is a gas museum in Kodaira city and it is held until the 9th of next month.