Hiroshima Nagasaki A-Bomb Exhibition

An internationally renowned and inspirational multimedia exhibition from Japan including photographs, atomic bomb survivors' drawings and paintings, artefacts from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings in 1945 and documentary film footage will be shown in the Sculpture Hall, Manchester Town Hall and Central Library until the end of February. The Imperial War Museum North will be holding a seminar entitled "Nuclear Weapons: Past and Future" on February 11 to coincide with this exhibition and are offering special tours every Thursday in February.

Local libraries will be holding paper crane folding and origami workshops for younger children during half term - every year people from all over the world fold paper cranes and send them to a statue in Hiroshima that celebrates Sadako Sasaki's life: she was 2 years old when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and was diagnosed with leukaemia at 11 and then heard of the legend that folding a 1000 cranes would bring a wish. She managed to fold 644 paper cranes before dying in October 1955, at the age of 12. More information at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A302202

A teachers' pack for key stages 3 and 4 for teachers wishing to bring a class to the exhibition or base a lesson on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is available on CD or as a hard copy from the Nuclear Policy and Information Unit.

Nuclear Policy and Information Unit (0161 234 3244, [email protected])
Imperial War Museum North (0161 836 4007)
Libraries - Jane Wilcox (0161 234 1925)

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