List of visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is located in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, in central Hiroshima, Japan. It was established on August 24, 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.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Established1955,
remodeled 1991,
renovated Peace Memorial Hall 1994
Location1-2 Nakajima-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima
DirectorKoichiro Maeda
Websitewww.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp

List of notable figures

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Date Distinguished visitor Nationality remark, "Message for Peace"
October 9, 1957 Jawaharlal Nehru   India Prime Minister of India
December 9, 1958 Douglas MacArthur II   US US Ambassador
July 26, 1959 Ernesto Guevara   Argentina visited as a Cuban ambassador [1]
August 7, 1960 Akihito   Japan Crown Prince of Japan
April 16, 1963 Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt   West Germany Health Minister of West Germany
January 27, 1964 Baudouin   Belgium King of Belgium
April 11, 1964 Richard Nixon   US visited four years before his presidency and laid a wreath
June 19, 1964 Syed Harun Putra   Malaysia Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
March 19, 1965 Paolo Marella   Vatican City Ambassador of Holy See
October 31, 1965 Valentina Tereshkova   Soviet Union

Cosmonaut

October 10, 1966 Jean-Paul Sartre   France Philosopher, political activist
October 16, 1968 Alexis Johnson   US US Ambassador
October 31, 1969 Armin H. Meyer   US US Ambassador
May 10, 1970 Gustav Heinemann   West Germany President of West Germany
April 16, 1971 Hirohito   Japan Emperor of Japan
August 6, 1971 Eisaku Satō   Japan 1st Prime Minister of Japan to attend the Peace Ceremony of 8/6, he introduced Japan's Three Non-Nuclear Principles
January 24, 1972 Juan Carlos I   Spain Crown Prince of Spain
October 24, 1972 Robert Ingersoll   US US Ambassador
August 6, 1976 Takeo Miki   Japan Prime Minister of Japan
August 5, 1977 Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe   Sri Lanka President of the 31st session of the UN General Assembly
January 11, 1978 Edward Kennedy   US Senator
December 23, 1979 Dmitry Polyansky   Soviet Union Soviet Ambassador
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
May 6, 1981 Jayne Fonda   US Actress
August 6, 1981 Zenko Suzuki   Japan Prime Minister of Japan
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
September 14, 1982 Isidoro Malmierca Peoli   Cuba Foreign Minister of Cuba
May 31, 1983 Bert Röling   Netherlands Jurist, Dutch Judge at the Tokyo Trial
August 6, 1983 Yasuhiro Nakasone   Japan Prime Minister of Japan
November 1, 1983 Alain Delon   France Actor
December 7, 1983 Abu Sayeed Chowdhury   Bangladesh President of Bangladesh
February 3, 1984 Joachim Meisner   West Germany Bishop of Berlin
March 16, 1984 Iri Maruki, Toshi Maruki   Japan Artist of The Hiroshima Panels
April 15, 1984 Bill Hayden   Australia Foreign Minister of Australia
May 25, 1984 Jimmy Carter   US 39th US president, visited after his presidency
July 8, 1984 San Yu   Burma President of Burma
August 5, 1984 Floyd Schmoe   US Pacifist, author
August 5, 1984 es:Mary McMillan   US 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   US Conductor, composer, "Too many words already. Not enough action!" MFP
June 11, 1986 Bernard Lown, Eugueni Chazov   US 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   Burma Prime Minister of Burma
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 5, 1987 Frederik   Denmark Crown Prince of Denmark
August 27, 1988 Carlos López Contreras   Honduras Foreign Minister of Honduras
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   Soviet Union 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   US Athlete, Olympic 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   Soviet Union 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   US 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 K. R. 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   US 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   US 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   US 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
November 30, 2010 Sheikh Hasina Wajed   Bangladesh Prime Minister of Bangladesh
August 6, 2012 Clifton Truman Daniel   US Grandson of President Truman
June 24, 2014 Benigno Aquino III   Philippines President of Philippines
April 17, 2015 Caroline Kennedy   US US Ambassador
April 20, 2016 John Kerry   US US Secretary of State [1]
May 27, 2016 Barack Obama   US 44th US President
May 9, 2017 Linas Linkevičius   Lithuania Foreign Minister of Lithuania
June 30, 2017 Bohuslav Sobotka   Czech Prime Minister of Czech Republic
March 15, 2018 Maithripala Sirisena   Sri Lanka President of Sri Lanka
  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ The Japan Times Che Guevara's daughter visits bomb memorial in Hiroshima retrieved 2011-7-26
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