The Dunedin-Otaru Sister City Society has put up a display to mark 80 years since atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
The exhibition was a part of an outreach project from the Hiroshima Peace Museum that four other centres in New Zealand were taking a part in.
Sister city society member Bronwyn Thomson said the project was an attempt to raise awareness that there should never be another Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
She remembered visiting Hiroshima in 1998 and it having a profound emotional effect on her.
"It’s not somewhere you can visit without tears. You cry every time you go."
It made her realise the impact weapons such as atomic bombs could have on people.
Ms Thomson wanted to help people think of other solutions to conflict than dropping nuclear weapons.
She was hopeful the exhibition would help bring awareness of the catastrophic event to people who were not able to visit Hiroshima and experience it firsthand.
The exhibition opens today at the HD Skinner Annex building across the museum reserve lawn from Tūhura Otago Museum at 10am.
