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The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is a
museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
located in
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is a memorial park in the center of Hiroshima, Japan. It is dedicated to the legacy of Hiroshima as the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack at the end of World War II, and to the memories of the bomb's direct and indirect victim ...
, in central
Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui h ...
, Japan, dedicated to documenting the
atomic bombing of Hiroshima The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the onl ...
in World War II. The museum was established in August 1955 with the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Hall (now the ). It is the most popular of Hiroshima's destinations for school field-trips from all over Japan and for international visitors. 53 million people had visited the museum from its opening in 1955 through 2005, averaging over one million visitors per year. The architect of the main building was
Kenzō Tange was a Japanese architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture. He was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism, and designed major buildings on five cont ...
.


Museum content

According to the introduction in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum's English guide:
"The Peace Memorial Museum collects and displays belongings left by the victims, photos, and other materials that convey the horror of that event, supplemented by exhibits that describe Hiroshima before and after the bombings and others that present the current status of the nuclear age. Each of the items displayed embodies the grief, anger, or pain of real people. Having now recovered from the A-bomb calamity, Hiroshima's deepest wish is the elimination of all nuclear weapons and the realization of a genuinely peaceful international community."
To facilitate education, the museum was renovated in 1994 and was now divided into two sections. The East Wing—the newest addition—explained the history of Hiroshima City before the bomb, development and decision to drop the bomb, the lives of Hiroshima citizens during World War II and after the bombing, and ended with information about the nuclear age and efforts for international peace. Included in this section was a model showing the damage done to the city. It had some important letters exchanged between scientists and top leaders of that era talking about atomic development and predicted result of its use. The West Wing, which was part of the old museum, concentrated on the damage of the bomb. Sections included ''Material Witness'', which showed clothing, watches, hair, and other personal effects worn by victims of the bomb; ''Damage by the Heat Rays'', a section that looked at what happened to wood, stone, metal, glass, and flesh from the heat; ''Damage by the Blast'', focusing on the destruction caused by the after shocks of the blast, and ''Damage by the Radiation'' which went into detail about the health effects suffered by humans. The museum began major renovations in 2014. The East Wing reopened in April 2017, featuring more interactive displays and replacing the model of the city with a new version that uses
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to demonstrate the effects of the bomb blast. When the East Wing reopened, the Main Hall was closed for
seismic retrofit Seismic retrofitting is the modification of existing built environment, structures to make them more resistant to seismology, seismic activity, ground motion, or soil failure due to earthquakes. With better understanding of seismic demand on stru ...
ting until 25 April 2019. The exhibits were also renovated during this time to focus more on victim's belongings, and are now divided into four sections: an introductory exhibit in the East Wing, "Reality of the Atomic Bombing" and a gallery in the Main Building, "Dangers of Nuclear Weapons" in the East Wing, and "Hiroshima History" in the East Wing.


List of notable visitors


Gallery

image:Hiroshima museum.JPG, Former model of Hiroshima City flattened after the explosion. The red ball depicts the explosion point. File:Hiroshima-atombomb watch.jpg, A watch stopped at the time of the atomic bombing File:Hiroshima Statues Musée pour la Paix.jpg, Reconstruction of physical damages on people and buildings after the explosion of the American atomic bomb in Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum File:Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum 2008 02.JPG, The Main Building of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum File:Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum 2008 03.JPG, The East Building of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum File:Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (front).jpg, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum showing axis with
cenotaph A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere. It can also be the initial tomb for a person who has since been reinterred elsewhere. Although the vast majority of cenot ...
and A-bomb dome (1949) File:Peace Watch in Hiroshima 2005 (75126787).jpg, Peace Watch


See also

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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the onl ...
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial The , originally the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, and now commonly called the Genbaku Dome, , is part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. The ru ...
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Hiroshima Witness ''Hiroshima Witness'', also released as ''Voice of Hibakusha'', is a documentary film featuring 100 interviews of people who survived the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as hibakusha ''Hibakusha'' ( or ; ja, 被爆者 or ...
'' – 1986 documentary film *
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum The is in the city of Nagasaki, Japan. The museum is a remembrance to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki by the United States of America 9 August 1945 at 11:02:35 am. Next to the museum is the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb ...
* Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims *
Nagasaki Peace Park Nagasaki Peace Park is a park located in Nagasaki, Japan, commemorating the atomic bombing of the city on August 9, 1945 during World War II. It is next to the Atomic Bomb Museum and near the Peace Memorial Hall. History Established in 1955, ...
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Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl who became a victim of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. She was two years of age when the bombs were dropped and was severely irradiated. She survived for another ten years, becoming one o ...
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Human Shadow Etched in Stone is an exhibition at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. It is thought to be the residue of a person who was sitting at the entrance of Hiroshima Branch of Sumitomo Bank when Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the atomic bomb was dropped ...
- one of the exhibitions at the museum


References


External links

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Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims



Hiroshima Archive
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