List of visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
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| Established |
1955, remodeled 1991, renovated Peace Memorial Hall 1994 |
|---|---|
| Location | 1-2 Nakajima-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima |
| Director | Koichiro Maeda |
| Website | www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp |
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is located in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, in central Hiroshima, Japan. It was established in August 1955. The vision of the museum is the complete international abolition of all nuclear weapons, and the promotion of world peace. Fifty-three million people had visited the museum from its opening in 1955 through 2005. The number of visitors is over one million per year. Since the museum opened, there have been numerous visits, by heads of state, foreign dignitaries, political figures, peace activists, and various celebrities or other notable figures.
List of notable figures
| Date | Distinguished visitor | Nationality | remark, "Message for Peace" |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 26, 1959 | Ernesto Guevara |  Argentina | visited as a Cuban ambassador [1] |
| April 11, 1964 | Richard Nixon |  USA | visited four years before his Presidency and laid a wreath |
| August 6, 1971 | Eisaku Sato |  Japan | 1st Prime minister of Japan to attend the Peace Ceremony of 8/6, he introduced Japan's Three Non-Nuclear Principles |
| February 25, 1981 | Pope John Paul II |  Vatican City | Pope, "God's hope is one of peace, not one of pain." MFP |
| April 24, 1981 | Margrethe II |  Denmark | Queen of Denmark |
| December 8, 1981 | Olof Palme |  Sweden | Prime minister of Sweden |
| March 13, 1982 | Sandro Pertini |  Italy | President of Italy |
| August 26, 1982 | Javier Pérez de Cuéllar |  Peru | Secretary-General of the UN |
| December 7, 1983 | Abu Sayeed Chowdhury |  Bangladesh | President of Bangladesh |
| March 16, 1984 | Iri Maruki, Toshi Maruki | Japan | Artist of The Hiroshima Panels |
| May 25, 1984 | Jimmy Carter | USA | 39th US President, visited after his presidency |
| July 8, 1984 | San Yu |  Burma | President of Burma |
| August 5, 1984 | Floyd Schmoe | USA | Pacifist, author |
| August 5, 1984 | es:Mary McMillan | USA | Founder of AWPTA current American Physical Therapy Association |
| September 15, 1984 | Rodrigo Carazo Odio |  Costa Rica | President of Costa Rica |
| November 10, 1984 | Kalevi Sorsa |  Finland | Prime Minister of Finland |
| November 23, 1984 | Mother Teresa |  India | Indian citizen, founder of Missionaries of Charity, "Let us love one another as God loves each one of us, so that the terrible evil that had ..." MFP |
| August 5, 1985 | Leonard Bernstein | USA | Conductor, composer, "Too many words already. Not enough action!" MFP |
| June 11, 1986 | Bernard Lown, Eugueni Chazov | USA | Founder of IPPNW, 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, "We physicians from the IPPNW are committed that the mistake never be repeated. ..." MFP |
| September 16, 1986 | Maung Maung Kha | Myanmar | Prime Minister of Myanmar |
| December 4, 1986 | Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado |  Mexico | President of Mexico |
| February 26, 1987 | Humayun Rashid Chowdhury | Bangladesh | president of the 41st session of the UN General Assembly |
| September 16, 1987 | Ati George Sokomanu |  Vanuatu | President of Ni-Vanuatu |
| November 12, 1988 | Adolfo Pérez Esquivel | Argentina | Sculptor, architect and pacifist. 1980 Nobel Peace Prize, "Let me express my solidarity with the Japanese people. Hiroshima is a testimonial for ..." MFP |
| September 14, 1989 | Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo |  Uruguay | President of Uruguay |
| November 4, 1989 | Andrei Sakharov |  USSR | Physicist, 1975 Nobel Peace Prize, "Sadness wrings my heart. We all must swear to do our best so as to avoid repeating ..." MFP |
| March 17, 1990 | Florence Griffith-Joyner | USA | Athlete, Gold medalist |
| September 14, 1990 | Hassan Gouled Aptidon |  Djibouti | President of Djibouti |
| October 6, 1990 | Oscar Arias Sánchez | Costa Rica | President of Costa Rica, 1987 Nobel Peace Prize, "I wish that all of the men and women in the world would engrave in their minds ..." MFP |
| November 2, 1990 | Mairead Maguire |  Northern Ireland | Irish peace activist, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize, "Let us put aside all thoughts and weapons of war, and pledge ourselves to use the means ..." MFP |
| November 10, 1990 | Rafael Leonardo Callejas |  Honduras | President of Honduras |
| April 23, 1991 | Junius Richard Jayawardene |  Sri Lanka | President of Sri Lanka |
| April 17, 1992 | Mikhail Gorbachev | USSR | President of the Soviet Union, visited after his presidency |
| August 5, 1992 | Pengiran Yusof |  Brunei | Former Prime Minister of Brunei (A-bomb survivor), "To the people of Hiroshima as well as the whole world, Let us pray to GOD-ALLAH TAALA, ..." MFP |
| April 5, 1993 | Martin Harwit | USA | Director of
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum |
| November 4, 1993 | Azlan Shah |  Malaysia | Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia |
| November 24, 1993 | Yuriko Kuronuma | Japan | Japanese violinist, "Seeing evidence that makes me embarrassed to be a member of the human race makes me ..." MFP |
| April 22, 1994 | Ingvar Carlsson | Sweden | Prime Minister of Sweden |
| May 7, 1994 | Mamoru Mohri | Japan | Japanese astronomer |
| October 5, 1994 | Juan Antonio Samaranch |  Spain | President of the International Olympic Committee |
| February 25, 1995 | Mary Robinson |  Ireland | President of Ireland |
| March 30, 1995 | The Dalai Lama |  Tibet | 14th Dalai Lama, 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, "As humans, we all have the duty to eliminate, from this earth, weapons with destructive ..." MFP |
| August 8, 1995 | Richard von Weizsäcker |  Germany | President of Germany |
| September 16, 1995 | Alberto Fujimori | Peru | President of Peru |
| November 1, 1995 | Helmut Schmidt | Germany | Chancellor of Germany |
| December 6, 1995 | Václav Havel |  Czech Republic | President of the Czech Republic |
| December 6, 1995 | Kocheril Raman Narayanan | India | President of India |
| December 6, 1995 | Kenzaburō Ōe | Japan | Author, 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature, "I have been to this memorial museum on many occasions. Today, I visited here once again ..." MFP |
| December 6, 1995 | Elie Wiesel | USA | Romanian-born Jewish-American writer, 1986 Peace Prize, "We shall remember, We must remember, for only in memory is there some hope for us all." MFP |
| August 28, 1996 | Betty Williams | Northern Ireland | Cofounder of Community of Peace People. 1976 Nobel Peace Prize, "May we always remember the tragedy of this lovely city. May we all work to make sure ..." MFP |
| July 28, 1997 | Frederik W. de Klerk |  South Africa | President of South Africa, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, "I was deeply touched. It must never happen again! Now is the time for an effort like ..." MFP |
| November 12, 1997 | Shimon Peres |  Israel | Former Prime Minister of Israel, 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, "This is the greatest declaration against war in human history; it is also the greatest ..." MFP |
| April 18, 1998 | Oscar Luigi Scalfaro | Italy | President of Italy |
| June 12, 1998 | Kuniwo Nakamura |  Palau | President of Palau |
| June 27, 1998 | Kazimierz Smoleń |  Poland | Director of Auschwitz concentration camp memorial and former Polish prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp |
| July 3, 1998 | Milorad Dodik |  Republika Srpska | Prime Minister of Republika Srpska |
| November 6, 1998 | Girija Prasad Koirala |  Nepal | Prime Minister of Nepal |
| December 9, 1998 | Seamus Heaney | Northern Ireland | Irish poet, 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, "The Peace Memorial Museum putting enlightenment where there was darkness ..." MFP |
| July 31, 1999 | Vasco Rocha Vieira |  Macau | Governor of Macau. |
| March 12, 2000 | Abdallah Baali |  Algeria | Ambassador of Algeria |
| May 12, 2000 | José Arnoldo Alemán Lacayo |  Nicaragua | President of Nicaragua |
| August 3, 2000 | Hisashi Inoue | Japan | Writer, "This phrase Protest and survive is a wise word by anti-nuclear activist and physicist of the UK. I add the word Remember to the formula." MFP |
| September 19, 2000 | Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo |  East Timor | Roman Catholic bishop, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, "I would like to thank the Mayor and the Director of the Museum for their sympathy ..." MFP |
| February 17, 2001 | Abdulsalami Abubakar |  Nigeria | Head of State of Nigeria |
| February 22, 2001 | Teburoro Tito |  Kiribati | President of Kiribati |
| April 15, 2001 | Helen Clark |  New Zealand | Prime Minister of New Zealand |
| February 8, 2002 | Aftab Seth | India | Ambassador of India |
| August 3, 2002 | Barbara Lee | USA | U.S. House of Representatives |
| November 21, 2002 | Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor | South Africa | Member of Parliament of South Africa |
| March 3, 2003 | Fidel Castro Ruz |  Cuba | President of Cuba |
| June 7, 2003 | Ranil Wickremasinghe | Sri Lanka | Prime Minister of Sri Lanka |
| January 29, 2004 | Howard H. Baker, Jr | USA | United States Ambassador |
| May 21, 2004 | Jean Ping |  Gabon | Foreign Minister of Gabon |
| August 5, 2004 | Alexander Losyukov |  Russia | Ambassador of Russia |
| November 4, 2004 | Bertrand Delanoë |  France | Mayor of Paris |
| November 4, 2004 | Mwai Kibaki |  Kenya | President of Kenya |
| July 23, 2005 | Viktor Yushchenko |  Ukraine | President of Ukraine |
| March 15, 2006 | Bingu wa Mutharika |  Malawi | President of Malawi |
| October 18, 2009 | Lesao Lehohla |  Lesotho | Deputy Prime Minister of Lesotho |
| October 20, 2009 | Sven Alkalaj |  Bosnia | Bosnian diplomat |
| April 17, 2015 | Caroline Kennedy | USA | US Ambassador |
| April 20, 2016 | John Kerry | USA | US Secretary of State |
| May 27, 2016 | Barack Obama | USA | 44th US President |
- Title noted at remark are as of date of the visit.
Messages for Peace left by above visitors can be seen at Museum site.
See also
- Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial
- Hiroshima Witness
- Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
- Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims
- Nagasaki Peace Park
References
- ↑ The Japan Times Che Guevara's daughter visits bomb memorial in Hiroshima retrieved 2011-7-26
External links
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum official website
- Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims
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