The Los Alamos History Museum will not host a traveling exhibition organized by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum until museum officials can determine how it portrays the history of the atomic bomb.
The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition, which features articles of clothing, exposed plates and other personal items from victims, aims to draw attention to the horrors of the bombs that destroyed both cities.
The exhibit is now in Budapest, Hungary, through the end of August. It will move to France and Belgium later this year.
Los Alamos Historical Society Executive Director Heather McClenahan said that contrary to previous reports, the exhibit was never scheduled by the museum and then cancelled.
“The headlines in the Japanese media are completely inaccurate and incorrect,” she said Tuesday. “We never cancelled the exhibit because we had never agreed to host it.
“And we’ve never refused to host the exhibit,” she continued. “In fact we’re still in discussion with the Hiroshima and Nagasaki museums to eventually host that exhibit some time in the future.”
The biggest hurdle is the subject of nuclear disarmament and how it’s portrayed through the exhibit.