Atomic Bomb Museum

There are several Peace museums because of the atomic bomb dropping in 1945. Four are listed here. You will find out what some of the exhibits at each museum are .

The Peace Memorial Museum

This museum is in the Peace Park, which is located in central Hiroshima. In the museum you can learn the history of Hiroshima, it's geography , and the affects of the Atomic Bomb explosion. You can also see the exhibits of what remained after the Atomic Bomb was dropped such as: Melted glass bottles, broken clocks, burnt black letters, Shin's tricycle, jammed tin plate, printed shadow of a man on stones, melted steel cans, ceramic roof tile, and a head of a stone Buddha with a melted face.

The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

This museum is located in Nagasaki, Japan, the second victim of the Atomic Bomb As one of the exhibits at this museum, there is a clock that at 11:02 a.m. the moment of the bombing. There is a section that lets people understand the destructive power and horrors of the Atomic Bombing. There is a section in the museum that lets visitors think of a world without nuclear weapons. There is a room where you can watch documentary films related to the Atomic Bombing. You can also see documents such as Nagasaki Peace Declaration.

The National Atomic Museum

The National Atomic Museum is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This museum is the nations only congressionally- chartered museum of nuclear science and history. The exhibits are: The Manhattan project, WWII and the Cold War, Secret no more- A look into Russians. Nuclear Weapon Museums, Robotics, Wagging Peace - the history of Arm's control, seeing is healing - nuclear Medicine, and Pioneers of science, including Albert Einstein, Stanislaw Ulan, and Marie Curie.

For more information about the atomic bomb museums visit these sites:
http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/
http://www.us1.nagasaki-noc.ne.jp/~nacity/na-bomb/museum/museume.html
http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/pmm.html

http://www.atomicmuseum.com/