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Sep. 19th, 2017 04:14 pmThe Hiroshima Peace Museum is really amazing. It makes sense that Hiroshima has dedicated itself to nuclear disarmament. If you get the chance, see it.
RubyKaigi was wonderful and our conference passes get us free admission there -- and the conference is literally a few hundred meters from the museum.
With that said, you have my permission to take the museum slowly. There's a lot to absorb there. And some of it is hard to see, as an American. I stopped and took breaks a couple of times.
I went back and forth between "I thought the destruction would be more complete than that" and just being utterly overwhelmed at what it *did* do. They do an amazing job of showing Hiroshima before the bomb, not just after. And walking through the current modern city really drives the point home in a way that's hard to describe. "I just walked past that on the way here. And here are pictures of this entire area, completely flattened, and bits of melted glass that used to be bottles, marbles or lanterns."
RubyKaigi was wonderful and our conference passes get us free admission there -- and the conference is literally a few hundred meters from the museum.
With that said, you have my permission to take the museum slowly. There's a lot to absorb there. And some of it is hard to see, as an American. I stopped and took breaks a couple of times.
I went back and forth between "I thought the destruction would be more complete than that" and just being utterly overwhelmed at what it *did* do. They do an amazing job of showing Hiroshima before the bomb, not just after. And walking through the current modern city really drives the point home in a way that's hard to describe. "I just walked past that on the way here. And here are pictures of this entire area, completely flattened, and bits of melted glass that used to be bottles, marbles or lanterns."
