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

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is a museum located in Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, which opened in 1955. The enormous damage caused by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima City on August 6, 1945 is passed down to the future through testimony, relics, and materials from that time. Not only is there the exhibition of dolls that were exposed to the radiation, there is also: the “Human Shadow Etched in Stone” where the heat rays of the bomb left a figure on the stone, the photograph of a girl who was burnt, and the historical background that led to the dropping of the atomic bomb along with the history of Hiroshima. The Atomic Bomb Dome, which was the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Center at the hypocenter, was registered as a World Cultural Heritage site in 1996 as a building that conveys/shows/teaches about the devastation of nuclear weapons.

広島平和記念資料館は１９５５年に開館した広島県広島市にある博物館です。1945年8月6日に広島市に投下された原子爆弾による甚大な被害を、証言や遺品、当時の資料等によって後世に伝えています。被爆を再現した人形の展示や爆弾の熱線で石に人影が残った「人影の石」、火傷を負った少女の写真など悲惨さを物語る展示だけでなく原爆投下に至った歴史的背景や広島の歴史も紹介しています。爆心地にある広島県産業奨励館だった「原爆ドーム」は、１９９６年、核兵器の惨禍を伝える建物として世界文化遺産に登録されました。