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List of visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

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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

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.

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 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 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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