In this workshop, you can choose from a variety of colored strings, wind them around a grid of nails hammered into a wooden board, to create a geometric pattern.
The theme this time is "phoenix", which evokes the image of new year.
Please be noted that the instructions is given in Japanese. Reservation is required. Please see the page written in Japanese for details.

• Date: Saturday, December 13, 2025
• Time: ①10:00 ~ 11:30　②13:30 ~ 15:00　
• Fee: 3,500 Yen (Participants are exempt from admission fee to Minkaen. Accompanying persons must pay admission fees.)
• Capacity: 16 participants for each time slot
• Place: the 2nd floor of 0. The Hara House

Folk stories told in the dialect of Tōno, usually held on the second Saturday of even-numbered months.

• Date: Saturday, December 13, 2025
• Time: 14:00 ~ 14:30
• Fee: Admission fee only
• place: 22. the Kudō House
• Capacity: 30 people (first come, first served)
• Storyteller: Etsuko Odaira

There are gallery talks for the Children on the special exhibition "Living in Gokayama - 30th Anniversary of the Registration as a World Heritage Site".
Please feel free to join on the spot.

• Time: 10:30 ~ (about 20 minutes)
• Fee: Admission Fee only
• Presenter: a curator of our museum
• Place: the exhibition room in the Main Building *It may change. Please confirm on the day.

Please click the link for details of the Special Exhibition "Living in Gokayama - 30th Anniversary of the Registration as a World Heritage Site".

Ebisu-co is an event to worship Ebisu-sama, one of the seven gods of good fortune in Japan. We reproduce it in the style of the Kitamura family in Hadano City.

• Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025 ~ Tuesday, January 20, 2026
• Time: Free to visit during opening hours
• Fee: Admission Fee only
• Place: 15. the Kitamura House

We exhibit how rice cakes are prepared as an offering to "shogatsu" (the New Year).

• Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025 ~ Tuesday, December 23, 2025
• Time: Free to visit during opening hours
• Fee: Admission fee only
• Place: 15. the Kitamura House

The stencil dyeing works by our staff, with patterns of horse, the zodiac sign of the year 2026, are on exhibit.

• Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2025 ~ Monday and national holiday, January 12, 2026
• Time: Free to visit during opening hours
• Fee: free (only inside of Traditional Indigo Dyeing Workshop)
• Place: Traditional Indigo Dyeing Workshop

You can experience indigo dyeing (with additional charge) in the Traditional Indigo Dyeing Workshop. Please refer to the page of the Traditional Indigo Dyeing Workshop for more details.

Snow fence, a traditional way of protecting folk houses from heavy snow in snowy regions, is reproduced at the Sugawara House.

• Date: Sunday, November 16, 2025 ~ Sunday, March 1, 2026
*The snow fence is installed on November 15 and 16, 2025, and is removed on March 1, 2026. The schedule may change depending on weather condition.

• Time: any time during the opening hours
• Place: 23. the Sugawara House
• In cooperation with: Mingu-Seisaku-Gijutsu-Hozonkai

Three Gassho-style houses from the Gokayama region of Nanto City, Toyama Prefecture have been relocated to the Minkaen.
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the registration of the Gassho-style Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama, the home of these three houses, as a World Heritage Site, a special exhibition will be held focusing on the lifestyle and culture of the Gokayama region.

• Period: October 1 (Wednesday), 2025 ~ May 24 (Sunday), 2026
• Hours: 9:30 ~ 17:00 (9:30　~ 16:30 during November to February)
• Fee: Admission Fee only
• Place: the Exhibition Room in the Main Building