Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum seeks ties with Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Jun. 11, 2017
by Kanako Noda, Staff Writer
It has been learned that Kenji Shiga, the director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, in Naka Ward, traveled to Poland in June and visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum to propose a partnership between the two institutions. The Hiroshima museum has decided to dispatch museum staff to the Auschwitz museum as part of their joint project. The Auschwitz museum provides information about the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany, when genocide took place against the Jewish people and others during World War II.
According to the Peace Memorial Museum, Mr. Shiga met Andrzej Kacorzyk, the deputy director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on June 3. In response to Mr. Shiga’s request that the museums work together, Mr. Kacorzyk responded positively. Because the Auschwitz museum collaborates with a local university to carry out joint research on how to preserve and restore exhibited items and how to protect them from degradation, the Hiroshima museum is looking to send some of its staff to Auschwitz to learn about this work. The two museums will now engage in discussions to clarify the details of their cooperation.
Since April 1 of this year, the Peace Memorial Museum has moved to develop stronger relationships with several museums abroad that focus on war-related themes. Between May 29 and June 5, Mr. Shiga visited the Hospital in the Rock Nuclear Bunker Museum and other places in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, where an atomic bomb exhibition has just opened. Mr. Shiga visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum as part of his trip to the atomic bomb exhibition.
(Originally published on June 11, 2017)
It has been learned that Kenji Shiga, the director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, in Naka Ward, traveled to Poland in June and visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum to propose a partnership between the two institutions. The Hiroshima museum has decided to dispatch museum staff to the Auschwitz museum as part of their joint project. The Auschwitz museum provides information about the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany, when genocide took place against the Jewish people and others during World War II.
According to the Peace Memorial Museum, Mr. Shiga met Andrzej Kacorzyk, the deputy director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on June 3. In response to Mr. Shiga’s request that the museums work together, Mr. Kacorzyk responded positively. Because the Auschwitz museum collaborates with a local university to carry out joint research on how to preserve and restore exhibited items and how to protect them from degradation, the Hiroshima museum is looking to send some of its staff to Auschwitz to learn about this work. The two museums will now engage in discussions to clarify the details of their cooperation.
Since April 1 of this year, the Peace Memorial Museum has moved to develop stronger relationships with several museums abroad that focus on war-related themes. Between May 29 and June 5, Mr. Shiga visited the Hospital in the Rock Nuclear Bunker Museum and other places in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, where an atomic bomb exhibition has just opened. Mr. Shiga visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum as part of his trip to the atomic bomb exhibition.
(Originally published on June 11, 2017)
