Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

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Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
長崎 原 爆 資料 館 - panoramio.jpg
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place Nagasaki
Art
opening 1955 (Nagasaki International Culture Hall)
1996 (new museum building at today's location)
Website

The Atomic Bomb Museum Nagasaki ( Japanese 長崎原爆資料館 , Nagasaki Genbaku Shiryokan ; English Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum ) is a peace museum to commemorate and document the atomic bombing of Nagasaki . The museum is located in the Peace Park of Nagasaki .

History and description

The predecessor of today's museum was the Nagasaki International Culture Hall , which opened in 1955 . This building was demolished in 1995 and a new museum building was built. The opening of the new museum building at its current location in Friedenspark took place in April 1996.

In the permanent exhibition, the events of August 9, 1945 are dealt with through various objects, photographs, models and exhibition texts. The exhibition also deals with the Hibakusha , the reconstruction after 1945 and the culture of remembrance .

  • Museum entrance

  • A Japanese school class in front of a Fat Man model

  • Schoolgirl's lunch box . The contents (rice) were charred by the explosion

  • A wall clock that stopped at the exact time of the explosion (11:02 am)

  • Museum library of the atomic bomb museum

See also

Web links

Commons : Nagasaki Atomic Bomb  Museum - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michio Asada: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum. In: HroshimaPeaceMedia. April 11, 2008, accessed August 17, 2020 .
  2. ^ Outline of the Exhibition and Facilities. In: NagasakiPeace.jp. Retrieved August 7, 2020 (English).

Coordinates: 32 ° 46 '21.4 "  N , 129 ° 51' 51.8"  E