Inspection and the study meeting of autumn of 1999 of the Lighting Cultural-Studies Group were performed at the "Nasu European Lamp Museum."Mr. Toshio Hasegawa, a member, opened the "Nasu European Lamp Museum" into "Nasu beer garden of Ginga-Kogen beer" on March 1 this year. The "Nasu European Lamp Museum" is exhibiting the Western lamps and luminaires in the 18th century to the 19th century focusing on the lamps "fairy lamps" of the phantom of the Victoria era with which Mr. Hasegawa collected through his works of Western antiques. Inside the museum, there are antique furnitures and the stained glass of Britain, and they are devising so that the atmosphere of the time where the "fairy lamps" were used may be brewed. Address: 325-0001 The second floor of Nasu beer garden of Ginga Kogen beer 4453-49 Takaku-kou Nasu-cho Tochigi prefecture Telephone 0287-63 -0051 Traffic: Tohoku Shinkansen Nasushiobara station alighting About 30 minutes by a car JR NorthEast line Kuroiso station alighting 1 minute on foot, Tashiro-Minami bus stop alighting by bus (Higashino traffic) About 15 minutes by taxi from the Kuroiso station

(Photos: Motoi Imajo)