In Photos: Renewed Hiroshima A-bomb museum exhibit makes emotional connection

Children look at a photograph of an injured girl taken by a Mainichi Shimbun reporter three days after the Aug. 6, 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum's newly re-opened exhibition space in Hiroshima's Naka Ward on April 25, 2019. (Mainichi/Naohiro Yamada)

The belongings of 23 children killed while engaged in "building demolition" to prevent fires spreading in air raids, are seen on display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, in Naka Ward, Hiroshima on April 24, 2019. The pieces, called the "Devastation on August 6," are presented without comment to engage with visitors emotionally. (Mainichi/Naohiro Yamada)

Victims' effects are displayed alongside their photographs at the "Cries of the Soul" corner in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima's Naka Ward on April 24, 2019. The accompanying texts include a mother's regret that she could not give her suffering child water. (Mainichi/Naohiro Yamada)

Excerpts from the diary of a young man who succumbed to atomic bomb sickness three years after the bomb was dropped are seen at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Naka Ward, Hiroshima, on April 24, 2019. "I don't want to die," he wrote, and expressed gratitude to his parents. (Mainichi/Naohiro Yamada)

A wall clock, retrieved from the ruins of a house in what is now Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, frozen in time at the moment the bomb was dropped, is seen on display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Naka Ward, Hiroshima on April 24, 2019. (Mainichi/Naohiro Yamada)

Photos of the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima causedby the Aug. 6, 1945 U.S. atomic bombing seen in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Naka Ward, Hiroshima, on April 24, 2019. The exhibition route takes visitors from images of the cloud, enlarged for the renewal, to the "Devastation on August 6" exhibit. (Mainichi/Naohiro Yamada)

A photograph of Yukiko Fujii, aged 10, taken by Mainichi Shimbun photographer Yukio Kunihira near Hiroshima Station three days after the atomic bomb fell, is seen on display on April 24, 2019, at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Naka Ward, Hiroshima. The image, which greets visitors on entry, measures about 1.6 meters high and 1.2 meters wide. A photo of Fujii at 20 is also included in a collection on the lives of survivors. (Mainichi/Naohiro Yamada)

Visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum's newly re-opened exhibition space look at the clothes of children who lost their lives to the blast, taken on April 25, 2019 in Hiroshima's Naka Ward. (Mainichi/Naohiro Yamada)

Visitors look at items belonging to victims of the atomic bomb, including a tricycle burned by the heat rays from the blast, in this photo taken in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on April 25, 2019. (Mainichi/Naohiro Yamada)