Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

The place itself might be interesting since it really provides a detailed description of pre-bombing Hiroshima, and nuclear bomb consequeces both on people, psychologically and phisically, and on places.
Yet I found quite disturbing exposing half a century old nails and skin pieces, names of dead people, their stories.
It was as if the museum had to strike at my deepest disgust to make me understand how tragic the event was.
That’s not the right way to awake people’s coscience, also made me think who built the museum thought visitors wouldn’t be clever enough to understand the tragedy residing within hiroshima bombing convincing them only with logic.
I must confess I felt disappointed, that’s it.
Making death an attraction won’t help us understand the tragedy better and also isn’t very respectful towards those who died that way.

Everyone should go here at least once to see the effects of the atomic bomb. As an American, I felt very awkward being there, but it was a great experience. If only more people would visit and see the relics of that horrible day…
One display is of the letters written to American presidents inviting them to visit…

The Peace Memorial Museum has a powerful effect. The exhibits show what the atomic bomb did to Hiroshima and its citizens. The most distressing piece of information that I learnt from the museum is that one reason the bomb was dropped was to justify the expenditure spent on the development of that technology. Thousands of people died horrible deaths on August 6th, 1945 and the weeks following. A large majority of these people were civillians. The exhibition concentrates on the stories of the children killed and I was almost moved to tears on many occasions. Hiroshima is a must-see. Lest we forget.