The Hiroshima Peace Museums
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In the Hiroshima Peace Park are two museums. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for Atomic Bomb Victims.

HIROSHIMA PEACE MEMORIAL MUSEUM | HIROSHIMA NATIONAL PEACE MEMORIAL HALL
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum centers around facts about the atomic bombing and the abolishment of nuclear weapons and the establishment of world peace. There are two main buildings the East and West Buildings. The East Building centers on Hiroshima before August 6, 1945 while the West Building focuses on the story of the bombing. The museum opened in 1955. The entire museum can be toured on line at its website. Some of the interesting artifacts on display in the museum are can be viewed from the site. One example is linked below.
Shin's Tricycle
Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for Atomic Bomb Victims
Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for Atomic Bomb Victims was established to honor and mourn the loss of life in Hiroshima and Nagasaki due to the atomic bombs. The Memorial Hall in Hiroshima has sites that focuses on the individual victims and world peace. It also concentrates on collecting memoirs of survivors as well as the names and photographs of victims to be kept permanently in the hall. The museum has a library, a Hall of Remembrance, and a Victim's Information Area. Three of the areas are linked below.
Click here for video of the display screens of victims.
Display Screens
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Hall of Remembrance

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