i had heard about this museum before,but being an art snob, wasn't partcularly interested in seeing a museum of fake artworks,replicas.But a year or so ago, i was in hospital in tokushima, and had a day to kill.When we talk about replicas,we usually think about scaled down pieces,but this is something else;full sized exact replicas of eveything from the last supper to Guernica,withe Van Gogh sunflowers and all in between. which is not to say its just the canonical cliches, for there are 1,000 pieces in between. Most Art lovers know the difference between an artwork printed in a book and the real thing,,and due to a special chemical process we won't go into,because I don't understand it,these replicas are as close to the real thing as you can get. When i mentioned I had a
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