Museum in which all children are allowed to touch the exhibits, to take in hand and even hold them with the scientific experiments, was opened in Hiroshima in 1980 in the new building of the city children's library.

The children's Museum is located in downtown, near the Convention center Green Arena and a Family pool. Near the Museum there is also a concrete platform on which the train extremals on skateboards and BMX bikes.

The four-storey building except the library and Museum, and planetarium is 340 seats. The vicinity of the planetarium is no coincidence, as the main emphasis of the Museum is made on the study of astronomy. The diameter of the planetarium dome is 20 meters, the programs about the Universe of children and adults are on display here with the help of modern projector.

The Museum introduces children and with other exact and natural Sciences. On the first floor of the building there is a race track where you can compete in speed, driving race car. Here children can learn about electric current, or to get into the maze, which will lead them to the second floor of the Museum. At this level there are exhibits with which you can create many different funny effects, to observe the reactions, to control the light and sound. In addition, the child can try yourself in the role of a driver of the controlled model train or play computer games-simulators.

In the city library most of the books in Japanese, but there are books and with so many illustrations that knowledge of Japanese or other language is completely not important.

The Museum is regularly provided for children seminars and other events dedicated to science, as well as concerts, plays and musicals – the building has a special room. The Museum has a scientific clubs – for example, fans club and radio kids club Japan Institute of invention and innovation.