Have you seen the movie Night at the Museum? If not, here’s the idea. In a museum, After the lights go out, statues and paintings come to life. Of course, it’s impossible. Or is it? If you had visited an exhibition called “Super Clone Cultural Properties,” you would have seen something similar to Night at the Museum. In this exhibition, Edouard Manet’s famous painting of a boy playing the flute—“The Fifer”— came down off the wall as a full-sized 3-D boy. You could actually touch him. “The Fifer” is the creation of Professor Miyasako Masaaki of Tokyo University of the Arts. He makes reproductions of great art. However, they are much more than mere copies. Professor Miyasako calls them “clones.” The 3-D fifer is fun. But Professor Miyasako has a serious purpose. The clones do not simply copy the great works as they look today. In some cases, they recreate the works exactly as they looked when they were first made hundreds of years ago. Why does Professor Miyasako make “super clones”? He says his goal is “to build peace through art.” Let's begin our night at the museum.