G7 Hiroshima Summit Commemorative Gallery welcomes daily average of around 800 visitors, exceeding estimates by 40 percent
Jun. 21, 2024
by Keiichi Nobira, Staff Writer
One month has passed since the opening of the G7 Hiroshima Summit Commemorative Gallery, an exhibition facility in Peace Memorial Park (in the city’s Naka Ward) designed to look back at the summit meeting of the G7 (Group of Seven industrialized nations) held in Hiroshima last year in May. The average number of daily visitors to the gallery reached 792 people, a number the Hiroshima City government considers to be around 40 percent higher than the original estimate. According to a city official, “The reasons for the high numbers appear to be a high level of interest in the historic event and the facility’s convenient location next to the Peace Memorial Museum.”
The gallery opened on May 19, the date marking the one-year anniversary of the start of the G7 Hiroshima summit. According to the city, which manages and operates the facility, the total number of visitors to the gallery in the one-month period through June 18 reached 24,552 people. The daily number was more than 240 people above the initial projection of 550 visitors.
The gallery is a single-story, prefab building with a floor space measuring 111 square meters. The Citizens Council for the Hiroshima Summit, an organization consisting of public-private sector companies and groups in Hiroshima Prefecture, invested 50 million yen into development of the facility, located on the north end of the Peace Memorial Museum’s East Building. The gallery will remain open until the end of 2030, the year the next G7 summit is scheduled to be held in Japan. Inside, 96 items related to the summit are on display, such as the roundtable used when leaders met for discussions as well as a replica of the museum guestbook in which the leaders wrote messages.
Admission to the gallery is free. Open hours are from 7:30 a.m. until 7:00 p.m., the same as the museum’s hours of operation, but those times will change depending on time of year. The gallery will be closed on December 30 and 31st.
(Originally published on June 21, 2024)
One month has passed since the opening of the G7 Hiroshima Summit Commemorative Gallery, an exhibition facility in Peace Memorial Park (in the city’s Naka Ward) designed to look back at the summit meeting of the G7 (Group of Seven industrialized nations) held in Hiroshima last year in May. The average number of daily visitors to the gallery reached 792 people, a number the Hiroshima City government considers to be around 40 percent higher than the original estimate. According to a city official, “The reasons for the high numbers appear to be a high level of interest in the historic event and the facility’s convenient location next to the Peace Memorial Museum.”
The gallery opened on May 19, the date marking the one-year anniversary of the start of the G7 Hiroshima summit. According to the city, which manages and operates the facility, the total number of visitors to the gallery in the one-month period through June 18 reached 24,552 people. The daily number was more than 240 people above the initial projection of 550 visitors.
The gallery is a single-story, prefab building with a floor space measuring 111 square meters. The Citizens Council for the Hiroshima Summit, an organization consisting of public-private sector companies and groups in Hiroshima Prefecture, invested 50 million yen into development of the facility, located on the north end of the Peace Memorial Museum’s East Building. The gallery will remain open until the end of 2030, the year the next G7 summit is scheduled to be held in Japan. Inside, 96 items related to the summit are on display, such as the roundtable used when leaders met for discussions as well as a replica of the museum guestbook in which the leaders wrote messages.
Admission to the gallery is free. Open hours are from 7:30 a.m. until 7:00 p.m., the same as the museum’s hours of operation, but those times will change depending on time of year. The gallery will be closed on December 30 and 31st.
(Originally published on June 21, 2024)
