Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum [広島平和記念資料館]

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is a museum in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.

This museum was opened in 1955.
The museum has two buildings.
They are Main Building and East Building, and visitors visit East Museum first.

In East Building, the history of Hiroshima city until A-bombing and the historic background why Hiroshima was selected as the target are introduced.

In Main Building, we can see the human damage and physical damage by atomic bomb in Hiroshima.

Various miserable articles found in the ruin, the diorama of the city after the exposion, and other items are displayed.

Especially the charred lunch box which a schoolgirl had, and the stone on which a shape of woman was printed, are well known.

Every year, more than a million people visit this museum.
Recently, over 200,000 visitors of them are foreigners.

Many leaders of the countries and Nobel Peace Prize winner have visited this museum.

On May 27, 2016, Barack Obama visited this park as the first sitting U.S. president.
After the tour of the museum, he sigined the guestbook.
At that time, he donated four "orizuru" (paper crane) which he made by hand.

When the 49th G7 summit was held in Hiroshima city in 2023, all G7 leaders visited this museum on May 19 and they sigined the guestbook.
And Ukrainian President Zelenskyy at war with Russia was also visited here on May 21.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

How to get here

By streetcar with route No. 2 or 6, about 20 minutes from Hiroshima station to Genbaku-Dome-mae stop.

From Genbaku Dome, about 10 minutes walk.

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