2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While the Second World War in Europe had already ended with Germany's surrender in May 1945, the bombs dropped in August 1945 brought an end to the war in the Pacific. The detonations almost completely destroyed the two Japanese cities and brought death and untold suffering to thousands and thousands of people. The catastrophic event has left deep scars on Japanese society to this day and also reminds humanity of the need for peace.
The Longest Night in Hiroshima, by Manaka Kawamoto after Iwao Nakanishi, 2017 Photo © Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
To mark the 80th anniversary of the only atomic bombs dropped on cities to date, the Museum Fünf Kontinente, in cooperation with the LMU's Japan Center, is staging an exhibition conceived by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum to commemorate the victims and send a signal against the use of nuclear weapons.
The exhibition is not least a place of remembrance, in which the fates of individual people are given a great deal of space.The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive lecture program in cooperation with the Japan Center of the LMU Munich.
July 4 to January 11, 2026
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