Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

The museum first opened its gates to the public on August 24, 1955, and has various artefacts, photographs and other personal items of lives lost. During your Japan trip, while exploring the place, you will also come to know Hiroshima’s history before as well as after the catastrophic event occurred. You will also learn about the development of the atomic bomb and also the impact of a bombing episode on the city and its inhabitants. Those include long-term consequences such as psychological trauma, radiation sickness and cancer.

• Explore the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum which serves as a poignant testament to the tragic events of August 6, 1945.
• Learn the history of Japan and how its campaign made an impact throughout Asia.
• Go to the video theatre in the East Wing to watch documentary films on the background of the A-bombing of Hiroshima.
• Visit the main building to take a look at artefacts and materials that will give you a glimpse of what happened in Hiroshima on 6th August 1945.
• Take a look at and also listen to testimonies of A-bombing survivors in one of the facilities of the main building.