teamLab Forest Fukuoka

teamLab interactive museums are renowned for their fusion of art, science, and technology, creating a new kind of museum where visitors become active participants — sometimes even becoming part of the installations themselves. The exhibits are the result of collaboration among an interdisciplinary team of specialists, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects.

teamLab Forest Fukuoka focuses on nature, with the forest serving as the central theme of its installations. The museum is composed of two main areas: Catching and Collecting Forest and Athletics Forest. A core concept of teamLab Forest is learning, and to fully enjoy the installations, it is recommended that visitors install the Catching and Collecting Forest app, which is available on both the App Store and Google Play.

Highlights

Catching and Collecting Forest 

Catching and Collecting Forest is an interactive digital installation that turns exploration into an immersive learning experience. Based on the concept of Catch, Study, Release, it invites visitors to move through a changing forest and ocean inhabited by digital animals linked to real-world seasons.

Using the Catching and Collecting Forest app, participants can discover and “catch” virtual animals with a Research Eye or Research Net, adding them to a digital collection book that reveals new details with each capture. By swiping, animals can be released back into the artwork space. Blending movement and technology, the installation offers a personalised, hands-on encounter with the digital natural world.

Athletics Forest – Exploring the World Through the Body

Athletics Forest is an immersive space where visitors perceive and interact with the world using their bodies, navigating complex, physically challenging environments that reflect a high-dimensional, dynamic world. Each installation responds to human presence, altering time, movement, and visual patterns.

Highlights include:

• Graffiti Nature in a Beating Valley – Visitors’ drawings come to life as creatures in a shared ecosystem, interacting and evolving in response to movement. At Sketch Factory, visitors’ drawings created in Graffiti Nature can be transformed into original gifts. The creatures brought to life in the installation are reproduced on items such as badges, hand towels, T-shirts, or tote bags.
• Rapidly Rotating Bouncing Spheres – Spinning spheres slow when approached, and bouncing on them creates light bursts and digital caterpillars.
• Soft Terrain in Granular Topography – Light particles flow along soft slopes, reshaping layered patterns as people walk.
• Balance Stepping Stones – Interactive stones change colour and tone, revealing a microscopic world influenced by each step.
• Waterfall Droplets – Droplets bounce individually or flow collectively, illustrating how small elements combine into dynamic systems.
• Animals of Flowers – Seasonal flowers form animal shapes, blooming and fading in response to visitor interaction.
• Typhoon Balls and Weightless Forest of Resonating Life – Giant floating spheres and ovoids emit light and sound, creating waves of colour and resonance throughout the space.

Together, these installations turn movement, touch, and exploration into a physical, high-dimensional learning experience that evolves with every visit.

Note: Some artworks cannot be experienced while wearing high heels, sandals, or other unsafe footwear.

Flutter of Butterflies, Ephemeral Life – A Whole Year per Year

Flutter of Butterflies creates an immersive space where butterflies emerge from visitors’ feet or hands when they stand still. The butterflies change colors with the seasons and disappear when touched. Rendered in real time, the installation continuously evolves, ensuring every visual moment is unique, reflecting the fleeting and ephemeral nature of life.