Hiroshima Children's Museum

広島市こども文化科学館Hiroshima

Museum

What makes this place special?

At a Glance

Hiroshima Children's Museum is a municipal science museum for children in Hiroshima Central Park. Its full name is the Hiroshima Children's Culture and Science Museum, and it opened on 1 May 1980 in a building shared with the Hiroshima City Children's Library. The exhibits are designed so that children can handle science themselves, in keeping with the museum's motto of looking, touching, trying, making and checking.

On the ground floor are the Dreamland of the Sky and Exploration Fort exhibits, a hall of about 250 seats for plays and concerts, and a museum shop. The second floor holds Dr. Scitech's Happy Laboratory, and the third floor covers astronomy and has space for special exhibitions. The planetarium is on the top floor under a dome 20 metres across with 253 seats, and it was renovated between 2015 and 2017 with LED light sources and a digital system.