“Hiroshima Appeals” Posters 1983-2024

The Hiroshima Appeals Posters project was launched in 1983 as a new campaign aspiring for peace and conveying the spirit of Hiroshima to people all over the world through graphic design. The first poster, Burning Butterflies, by Kamekura Yusaku, then-president of the Japan Graphic Design Association (JAGDA), was highly acclaimed. In following years, one JAGDA member volunteered to design a poster every year however, the project was suspended for a number of years before being resumed in 2005, the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Today, the project is sponsored by the Hiroshima chapter of JAGDA, the Hiroshima International Cultural Foundation, and the Hiroshima Peace Creation Fund, and continues to convey the heartfelt desire for peace internationally through activities such as donating works to member cities of Mayors for Peace, displaying posters in the press center at the G7 Hiroshima Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in 2016, and gifting works to Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, when he visited Hiroshima in 2019.
In 2025, in addition to presenting all 28 of the Hiroshima Appeals posters dating to the beginning of the project, we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing by striving to impart the need for each and every person to continue thinking about peace amid the increasingly tense global situation, and the importance of achieving a world without nuclear weapons.
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“Hiroshima Appeals” Posters 1983-2024
Period: January 15, Wed—Februry 9, Sun, 2025

Opening Hours: 10:00–17:00 ※Admission until 30 minutes before closing

Closed: Mondays

Venue: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art Gallery B-1

Admission: Free

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