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Peace Museums Around the World
Peace museums portray peace history and contemporary efforts to promote peace They also display anti-war and peace art There are over 100 worldwide in at least 15 countries The International Network of Museums for Peace is growing. See the website:
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Anti-War Museum, Berlin
One of the earliest peace museums, founded in 1925, showed images of the atrocities of war and was closed by the Nazi regime in 1933 because it was critical of militarism.
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The Berlin Anti-war museum today
The museum was reopened in the 1980s by Tom Spree, grandson of the museum’s founder, Ernst Friedrich.
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
The museum is dedicated to the abolition of nuclear weapons
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Sculpture of Sadako in the Hiroshima Peace Garden of the Memorial Museum
School children bringing peace cranes to the memorial sculpture of Sadako
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Caligraphy of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution which renounces war Grassroots House, Kochi, Japan
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The Peace Museum, Bradford, U. K
The Peace Museum, Bradford, U.K., has art and artefacts of peace movements
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An exhibition of the Peace Museum in Bradford
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Gandhi Museum, Madurai, India
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Inside the Gandhi museum
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Sign outside the International Peace Museum, Dayton, Ohio
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Guernica Peace Museum Candles lit outside the museum in memory
of the survivors of the bombing of Guernica in 1937
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Peace and Reconciliation Gallery, Herbert Museum, Coventry
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