Hiroshima museum seeks A-bomb items kept overseas
HIROSHIMA, Aug. 3 Kyodo - The Hiroshima Peace
Memorial Museum is asking people overseas
to send it items related to the Aug. 6, 1945
U.S. atomic bombing of the city.
The museum plans to mount a special exhibition
in 2005 of such items, including photos,
films and damaged clothing, which came into
the possession of Allied military or medical
personnel who visited Hiroshima after the
bombing, curator Mitsuru Nishida said.
Most of the personnel were from the United
States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand,
Nishida said.
The museum will send photos of the display
of donated items to the donors if they so
wish, he said.
The 11,700-square-meter museum, which opened
in 1955 in the Peace Memorial Park near ground
zero of the atomic blast in downtown Hiroshima,
is operated by the Hiroshima Peace Culture
Foundation, an affiliate of the Hiroshima
city government.
It has six curators who analyze and maintain
about 13,000 items.
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