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Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70th anniversary commemoration

11 Aug 2015

The Museum’s Living Worlds gallery was the venue for the recent commemoration of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, organised jointly by Manchester City Council and the Museum

The wreath at the foot of the War Memorial

Following a welcome from Will Spinks, Julie Ward MEP gave an account of the terrible events 70 years ago that destroyed the two cities; Afzal Khan MEP then read the 2015 Hiroshima Peace declaration. The Lord Mayor of Manchester, Councillor Paul Murphy, laid a white-flowered wreath of remembrance on behalf of the citizens of Manchester for the victims of the bombings.

Following a two-minute silence, the audience listened to poetry and heard about the City Council’s ‘Project G’, which has brought Gingko saplings from Hiroshima to Manchester as part of a schools art project. The event was concluded by a reading of the UN Peace Declaration by all present.

The wreath from the event is now at the University War Memorial in the Main Quad.