防災未來館, Science museum in Chūō-ku, Kobe, Japan

The Disaster Prevention Future Museum, now the West Building of the Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution, stands in HAT Kobe in Chuo Ward, Kobe. The seven-storey reinforced concrete and steel building, completed in April 2002, has four exhibition floors: a 1.17 Theater with SFX recreating the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, a diorama of the shattered city, and a hall telling reconstruction through a girl who lost her sister in the fires.

The museum opened in 2002 in HAT Kobe, Chuo Ward, Kobe, as part of the Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution, dedicated to the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. In January 2010 it was renamed the institution's West Building. The building, designed by Showa Sekkei for Hyogo Prefecture, was completed in April 2002 with seven floors above ground and one below.

The museum's name was changed to the West Building of the Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution in January 2010. Volunteer storytellers, many of them survivors of the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, lead seminar sessions on the first floor and pass on their accounts in person.

The museum stands in HAT Kobe in Chuo Ward, Kobe: six minutes on foot from Hanshin Iwaya Station, ten from JR Nada Station on the Tokaido Line. The building has seven floors above ground and one below, with exhibition floors on levels 1 to 4 and a bridge on the 2nd floor linking it to the East Building. Nearby are the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art and Kobe Oji Zoo.

The 1.17 Theater recreates the destruction of the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake — collapsing buildings, railway bridges and expressways — using special effects based on the latest surveys and research. The adjacent "Town Just After the Earthquake" diorama, with sound, shows the ruined streets immediately after the tremor.