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Those reading Engadget last year might recall our unbridled excitement for the opening of the largest, most extensive (if not the first) museum dedicated to robots and robotics: the Robot Museum (aka Robothink). So you can only imagine how incredibly crestfallen we were to hear that just after a year of entertaining and educating the robot loving hordes, the museum announced that it is shuttering permanently.

Well, we couldn't let this monument to the bots we love go undocumented before the humans have to hit the kill switch, so this week we got our asses on the Shinkansen out to Nagoya, Japan in order to fulfill our androidiest electric-sheep dreams and hit up the museum before it's dismantled for parts. And none too soon, it turns out the museum actually closes its doors forever this Sunday. One day we will all pay for this.

Galleries below of the museum and its expansive robot shop -- be warned, over 150 photos of Robot Museum robots and exhibits and shopping await you. Read on for our thoughts about the museum.

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