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Japan museum, rail line team up on train wrap

Japan museum, rail line team up on train wrap

A museum guide robot explains Gauguin’s Te Nave Nave Fenua oil painting. Photo: Kyodo

An art museum and a small railway line in western Japan launched on Monday a crowdfunding appeal for a plan to wrap one of the line’s single-carriage trains with designs taken from Western masterpieces hung at the facility to help cheer up the local area.

The Ohara Museum of Art in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, and the Ibara Railway plan to decorate both the interiors and exteriors of one of its train cars with works by Renoir and El Greco,…

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