Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
原爆投下から10年を経て開館した広島平和記念資料館が、2019年4月25日にリニューアルオープンしました。 実物の写真を中心に、原爆死没者の遺品、原爆投下当時の写真、被爆者の絵画などを展示しています。 記念品を寄贈した方々はどのような思いを抱いているのでしょうか？ 広島の小学生のアイデアはどうでしょうか？ オバマ大統領やローマ法王などもこの博物館を訪れています。(English) Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum opened ten years after the Atomic bomb was dropped, and it re-opened on April 25, 2019, after renovations. With a focus on real-life pictures, the museum displays mementoes from those who perished, photos from the time of the bombing and paintings from those exposed to radiation. What are the thoughts of those who donated the mementoes? What about the ideas of elementary students in Hiroshima? Even people such as President Obama and the Pope have come to visit this museum.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum - May 25 2019
1)
The Atomic Bomb Museum is located on the corner of the Peace Park. In May 2019, it was renovated for the first time in 28 years. The focus was on the actual materials. We can't do it badly. It has been arranged with the belongings and photographs of the survivors.
2)
A two-year-old boy was a victim of the atomic bomb. We will convey the reality of the atomic bombing to the present day through tens of thousands of materials about Hiroshima drawn by the hibakusha on that day.
More than 70 years( in 2023 is 78 years ago) have passed since the bombing. How will the Atomic Bomb Museum communicate the abolition of nuclear weapons in a new era?
3)
During the 10-day Golden Week holiday in 2019, long lines formed at the Atomic Bomb Museum. It opened at 8:30. During this long holiday; visitors exceeded 10,000 daily.
Five years ago, the Atomic Bomb Museum underwent a significant renovation.
The main building has been closed since April 2011. Two years ago, it was renovated ahead of schedule.
4)
First, pre-war Hiroshima unfolds. On August 6 1945, a single atomic bomb changed the city forever.
The city was destroyed in an instant. In the atomic bomb museum, a young girl appears standing in ruins. The little girl was exposed in her home, about 1,200 metres from the hypocentre. She was severely burnt on her right hand, where the heat rays hit her. And she lost her life in the atomic bomb.
5)
Two hundred thirty thousand schoolgirls' A-bomb uniforms are displayed at the Atomic Bomb Museum.
About 20,000 A-bomb materials, including many provided by the families of A-bomb survivors. How will this material be displayed and communicated? The aim was to create an exhibition that would appeal to the sensibilities of visitors.
How should we arrange these tattered uniforms?
6)
Eiji Horio, a junior high school student under the old system, was 13 years old and a freshman at Hiroshima Second Junior High School.
His younger sister, Yuko, and older brother were on the shore that day as part of the student mobilisation.
The mud wall fell with a clatter. Another glass broke, and my sweet brother, who used to play with me in the garden, came home with severe burns all over his body.
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My brother's face was very swollen. His body is all swollen, and his skin is sore and peeling.
Eiji died four days later.
As a younger sister, I felt I had to tell him about his brother's death.
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2000 Yuko donated her brother's belongings to the Atomic Bomb Museum.
"If no one sees it, they won't know, so I'm glad I donated it because it's useful, even if it's silent."
Very few photos were taken on August 6, but the survivors are exhibiting pictures and paintings of the scene on that day.
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In the burnt fields, a family was walking with serious injuries. Some people were trapped under a building and were asking for help. Hiroshima on August 6 and the belongings of the atomic bomb survivors, the underwear of the baby who died at the age of two, is still stained with blood.
Shigeru, who went out for lunch, never ate it.
His lunch box was burned due to the Atomic Bomb.
10)
Many foreigners, including American soldiers, died in the bombing.
We created a section about him as a foreign hibakusha for the first time in the renovation.
This wall clock is excavated from the ruins of a barber shop called Hamai Barber Shop in Nakashimakata-cho, now the Peace Park. The clock stopped at 8:15 am and kept time for a family of seven.
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Tokusou Hamai is 84 years old. He donated this clock.
The atomic bomb killed her parents, elder sister and the whole family.
Tokusou, who was evacuated, was the only one not damaged.
In the barbershop run by his mother and father, whom he loved so much, the wall clock that kept watch over his family stopped.
"This is my alter ego. I wanted to keep it in my hands, but I'm glad everyone can see it here."
12)
Yukiko Fujii, a young girl standing in the ruins of the main building where the main building was first exhibited, is the last display panel of the main building.
The heat rays and the explosion injured her; she grew up, married, had children and lived happily.
But at that time, she was also affected by radiation and later developed cancer and died in 1977 at 42.
Although she escaped the devastation, Yukiko's life did not end long after the bombing. She has a genuinely long-lasting effect.
13)
The number of foreign tourists has been increasing in recent years.
What has the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Museum, which many foreigners have visited in connection with its renovation, conveyed in the past, and what will it get in the future?
Many foreigners also visit the Peace Park.
The impetus for this was the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama to Hiroshima three years ago.
President Obama visited the atomic bomb museum. And it all started here.
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In 1949, the roof tiles and stones donated by a man were exhibited in a community centre room.
The exhibitor was geologist Shogo Nagaoka.
Mr Nagaoka collected and exhibited roof tiles and bottles burnt by heat rays.
His second son, Renji Nagaoka, exhibited atomic bomb materials with his father.
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He says he was following his father's beliefs, which he had to pass on to future generations.
The tiles melted from the heat rays collected by Mr Nagaoka, and Mr Nagaoka's actions also moved the city of Hiroshima.
In 1955, the Atomic Bomb Museum was completed as a facility to store and display atomic bomb materials.
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Mr Nagaoka served as the first director. Many people visited the museum.
An exhibition on the peaceful use of atomic energy was held the following year, and the Hiroshima Reconstruction Exposition was born in 1958.
Exhibitions on the peaceful use of nuclear energy are displayed along with materials related to the atomic bombing.
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Mr Nagaoka said he was against using the atomic bomb museum to display the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
His father did not like anything museum-like.
He had the feeling that he was just an atomic bomb document.
His father never wavered in his commitment to peace.
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Since 1973 the A-bomb reproduction dolls have been on display.
We made a doll that realistically reproduced the human figure immediately after the bombing.
These dolls made a strong impression on visitors.
It became a symbol of the museum.
19)
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev also stared at the Atomic Bomb Replica Doll. And Pope John Paul II also spoke about what he felt here as a world leader.
"War is the destruction of human life. War is death."
But A-bomb survivors also expressed their doubts. What did Shogo Nagaoka, the museum's first director, think of the display of the A-bomb reproduction dolls?
My father was against the display of the dolls.
He wanted people to see what was real, and his father believed it would be a force for peace.
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How can we pass on the bombing to future generations? There was a lot of debate about whether or not to display the A-bomb replica dolls.
We decided to remove the A-bomb replica dolls and concentrate on exhibiting the real thing.
Some display cases were also removed to make the exhibits more accessible.
21)
The American poet Arthur Binard, who lives in Hiroshima, has published picture books calling for peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons based on the will of the atomic bomb survivors.
SAGASHITE IMASU "I Am Searching" by Arthur Binard
For many people, this is their first time seeing an atomic bomb.
The challenge is to broaden the front, not to flatten it.
22)
What did the American Arthur feel in the Atomic Bomb Museum? When he heard the voices of the many students with whom he happened to be travelling, they said: "This is dangerous, and if you look at it again, it's too bad."
"They're forced to carry on their paintings a replacement for the wax figure of the A-bomb survivor exhibition in the museum. The museum still needs to be finished. This is the starting point for future experiments."
23)
Honkawa Elementary School is located in Naka Ward, Hiroshima City, 350 metres from the hypocenter.
In an instant, 400 of its children were killed that day.
This summer, 75 fifth-grade elementary school students visited the renovated atomic bomb museum.
They learned about peace in elementary school very close area the bombing.
How did the children of Honkawa Elementary School perceive the actual A-bomb materials?
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There were not only pictures but also the words of the person, and various things were written, and I was able to understand the horror of the atomic bomb even more.
There were parts where I turned my eyes away for a moment, but we should be able to look at them properly, face them, and think about them.
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As someone who went to the primary school closest to the hypocentre, I want to say something.
I think many people worldwide do not know about the atomic bomb.
We want to spread peace from here.
More than 70 years have passed since the atomic bomb was dropped. The average age of nuclear bomb survivors is over 82 (in 2023, it is 85 over).
How will the renewed atomic bomb museum convey the reality of the nuclear bombing to future generations?
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