Director of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum to visit six museums in U.S., propose A-bomb exhibitions
Jul. 28, 2017
by Kanako Noda, Staff Writer
Kenji Shiga, the director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, will travel to the United States between September 6 and 19 to visit six museums, including the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the museum announced on July 27. He will visit the museums to make proposals that include holding exhibitions on the atomic bombings. This is part of the Hiroshima museum’s efforts to form partnerships with overseas war-themed museums.
The other five museums are: The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York, the Los Alamos Historical Museum, the Japanese American National Museum, the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, and the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Honolulu. He will meet the directors of these museums and explore the possibility of holding A-bomb exhibitions, delivering accounts of the atomic bombings online, and cooperating to preserve artifacts and prevent their deterioration. The Hiroshima museum hopes to hold A-bomb exhibitions in the United States in 2020, the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings.
In April of this year, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum began its efforts to develop a larger number of partnerships with museums overseas. In June, it formed ties with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland. Mr. Shiga said that the Hiroshima museum has been attracting wider and very favorable attention since Barack Obama, then president of the United States, visited the city in May 2016. He added that he hopes to work together with other museums to tackle the common concerns of preserving artifacts and handing down memories of war.
(Originally published on July 28, 2017)
Kenji Shiga, the director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, will travel to the United States between September 6 and 19 to visit six museums, including the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the museum announced on July 27. He will visit the museums to make proposals that include holding exhibitions on the atomic bombings. This is part of the Hiroshima museum’s efforts to form partnerships with overseas war-themed museums.
The other five museums are: The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York, the Los Alamos Historical Museum, the Japanese American National Museum, the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, and the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Honolulu. He will meet the directors of these museums and explore the possibility of holding A-bomb exhibitions, delivering accounts of the atomic bombings online, and cooperating to preserve artifacts and prevent their deterioration. The Hiroshima museum hopes to hold A-bomb exhibitions in the United States in 2020, the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings.
In April of this year, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum began its efforts to develop a larger number of partnerships with museums overseas. In June, it formed ties with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland. Mr. Shiga said that the Hiroshima museum has been attracting wider and very favorable attention since Barack Obama, then president of the United States, visited the city in May 2016. He added that he hopes to work together with other museums to tackle the common concerns of preserving artifacts and handing down memories of war.
(Originally published on July 28, 2017)
