150,000 visitors view Museum of World Athletics exhibition in Tokyo

Dear friends of MOWA, 30 August 2025 – During the eight weeks since the MOWA Heritage Athletics Exhibition Tokyo 25 in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building was opened by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, some 150,000 visitors have viewed the Museum of World Athletics’ (MOWA) latest international displays.

The exhibition, which is located on the 2nd and 45th Floors of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building No.1, North Tower, contains competition clothing, shoes, equipment and trophies donated by many of the greatest athletes in the sport’s history.

On the 45th Floor observatory deck, MOWA Touch Screens allow visitors to watch video clips from the Tokyo 1991 edition of the World Athletics Championships. There is also a selection of artefacts from the MOWA Olympic Collection on show, exhibits dating from 1924 to 2024.

These include items from Olympic legends like 4-time champions Jesse Owens and Fanny Blankers-Koen, and stars of last year’s Games in Paris such as Nafissatou Thiam and Sifan Hassan.

The main MOWA exhibition space is on the 2nd floor at which all visitors to the observatory deck must alight from the north tower. Those displays concentrate on the history of the World Athletics Championships from 1983 to 2023, with over 100 competition artefacts from legends such as Carl Lewis, Usain Bolt, Valerie Adams, Allyson Felix, Jan Zelezny etc…, and this year’s centenary of the Japanese Association of Athletics Federations.

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The MOWA exhibition is located just 3 stops on the Oedo metro line away from the National Stadium where the World Athletics Championships will be held – Click here to view MOWA Exhibition information Leaflet 

Chris Turner for World Athletics Heritage

Click here to enter MOWA and Take a virtual journey through Athletics history For more information about MOWA and the World Athletics Heritage Collection – click here

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