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Since the 9th of August,  around three thousand three hundred people have visited the exhibition at the Reykjavík City Library. It is common for parents to bring older children with them to the exhibition and the exhibition is frequented by foreign guests. Next Friday, the 31st of August, begin school visits to the exhibition which [...]

Icelandic daily newspaper, Fréttablaðið, has today the 23rd August on the front page and another in a separate section on education on p. 32 articles regarding the educational material that has been specially made for the Exhibition. The material is in the form of a teaching website that Halldór Björgvin Ívarsson, teacher and fisherman prepared [...]

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A great number of people visited the exhibition on the 18th of August, a day devoted to cultural events in Reykjavík. Parents came with their children, young people and old took time at the exhibition to read and contemplate. Members of the Origami Iceland society and Japanese people living in Iceland helped young guests fold paper cranes. In [...]

Tomorrow, Saturday the 18th of August -the annual Reykjavík Culture Night- Japanese residents in Iceland will host events at the Exhibition gallery in the Reykjavík City Library related to the Exhibition and Japanese culture. Storytelling for children related to nuclear power are at 16:00, 16:30, 17:00 and 17:30. In the evening, at 20:00, guests will [...]

Yesterday began extensive presentation to primary school teachers  of the educational material and assignments created in relation to the Exhibition. The material is open to the public and can be found at the Exhibition’s website, hirosimanagasaki.is, under the tab “Educational Material.” Today, Thursday 16th August, the project presented at the exhibition of educational materials for [...]

Over one hundred invited guests attended the opening ceremony of the exhibition at the Reykjavík Art Museum on the afternoon of the 9th of August. Professor Auður Hauksdóttir, chairman of the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages hosted the ceremony which was very provoking. President of The Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb, [...]

The Hiroshima Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition is open every day at the Reykjavík City Library, which is located at Tryggvagata 15, until the 13th of September. Opening hours are as follows: Monday – Thursday: 10 – 19. Friday: 11 – 17 Saturday – Sunday: 13 – 17. Everyone is welcome and please bring guests.

This 81 year-old survivor of the nuclear attack on Nagasaki’s story understandably gathered a lot of attention in Iceland and his addresses at the University of Iceland, at the Atomic Bomb Exhibition’s opening and at the Candle Floating Ceremony are historic events. Never before has a nuclear bombing survivor visited Iceland for this purpose. Here [...]

A collaboration of Icelandic peace movements hosted a candle floating ceremony at the Reykjavík Pond on the 9th of August to commemorate the victims of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings and to insist on total nuclear disarmament of the world. Inosuke Hayasaki, who survived the bombing of Nagasaki, then only 14 years old (today 81), addressed the [...]