Hiroshima Heiwa Kinen Shiryōkan

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Hiroshima Heiwa Kinen Shiryōkan
Other forms of name
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Peace Memorial Museum (Hiroshima, Japan)
Coordinates
132.4530556 132.4530556 34.39147222 34.39147222 (gooearth )
Type of corporate body
Museums
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 153640639
Wikidata: Q1200076
Library of congress: n 83034559
TAU10: 000189890
Sources of Information
  • Gembaku Dōmu hozon ... 1968.
  • Hiroshima genshi bakudan ni yoru higai jōkyō, Shōwa 29, 1954:t.p. (Peace Memorial Museum)
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Wikipedia description:

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is a museum in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, in central Hiroshima, Japan, dedicated to documenting the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in World War II. The museum was established in August 1955 with the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Hall (now the International Conference Center Hiroshima). It is the most popular of Hiroshima's destinations for school field trips from all over Japan and for international visitors. 53 million people visited the museum between 1955 and 2005, averaging over one million yearly. The architect of the main building was Kenzō Tange.

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