YOKO ONO VISITS PEACE MUSEUM

Never forgotten: Yoko Ono carries a wreath Friday as she walks with Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

HIROSHIMA — Yoko Ono, the New York-based avant-garde artist and widow of former Beatle John Lennon, visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on Friday morning.

Ono, 78, was in Hiroshima to attend an award ceremony and receive the eighth Hiroshima Art Prize for her contribution to world peace through contemporary art. The ceremony was to be held Friday night at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.

In addition to her wide-ranging artistic activities, Ono is known as an active supporter of the peace movement. She spoke in support of the abolishment of nuclear weapons at the review conferences of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty at the United Nations in 2005 and 2010.

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