Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum 2009.jpg
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place Hiroshima
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opening August 24, 1955
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The Hiroshima Peace Museum ( Japanese 平和 記念 資料 館 , Heiwa Kinen Shiryōkan ; English Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum ) is a museum opened in 1955 to commemorate and document the atomic bombing on Hiroshima . It is located in the Peace Park of Hiroshima .

History and description

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum opened on August 24, 1955. It is located in the Friedenspark not far from the former building of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry , which was the hypocenter of the atomic bomb explosion.

The main building was designed by the architect Kenzō Tange . Many public figures and Nobel Peace Prize winners from all over the world visited this museum; including Pope John Paul II , Jimmy Carter , Mother Teresa , Andrei Sacharow , Michail Gorbatschow , Juan Antonio Samaranch , the Dalai Lama , Václav Havel , Helmut Schmidt , Richard von Weizsäcker , Elie Wiesel , Frederik Willem de Klerk , Shimon Peres and Fidel Castro .

The foundation run by the museum collects memorabilia from the events and testimonies of the victims and is also active in the international peace movement. The museum gives a detailed account of the events of August 6, 1945 and also looks at the spread of nuclear weapons around the world.

In contrast to the museum of the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo , the Peace Museum shows a differentiated picture of Japanese history and criticizes in particular the militarism of the early Shōwa period .


Impressions of the permanent exhibition

  • Exhibition area in the museum

  • Model of Hiroshima before August 6, 1945

  • Model of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb explosion

  • Model of Hiroshima with marked hypocenter of the atomic bomb explosion

  • Clock in the museum that stopped at the moment of the atomic bomb explosion

  • Head of a Jizo statue that was burned by the heat of the explosion

  • Illustration of the damaging effects of the atomic bomb explosion

Others

  • The Hiroshima Peace Museum is a deployment location of the Austrian Foreign Service .
  • The phoenix trees that stood in the immediate vicinity of the bomb explosion and were moved here in 1973 are in the museum's park .

See also

literature

  • Wolf Hannes Kalden: Hiroshima Memorial Site - A tour. Kalden-Consulting, Bad Soden-Salmünster 2014, ISBN 978-3-942818-08-7 .
  • Stefanie Schäfer: The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Museum - Remembering Beyond the Nation (1945–1975). (= Histoire. Volume 108). transcript, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-3801-1 .

Web links

Commons : Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. In: pcf.city.hiroshima.jp. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Peace Service in Hiroshima. In: Auslandsdienst.at. August 6, 2002, accessed August 6, 2020 .

Coordinates: 34 ° 23 ′ 30.6 ″  N , 132 ° 27 ′ 7.5 ″  E