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Exploring Peace: Museums Worldwide

Discover over 100 peace museums across 15 countries showcasing the history and ongoing efforts for global harmony. From anti-war art to nuclear disarmament exhibits, these museums promote peace education and reflection. Uncover the stories behind renowned museums like the Berlin Anti-War Museum and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, offering insights into past tragedies and hopes for a peaceful future. Explore unique galleries like the Grassroots House in Japan and the Peace Museum in Bradford, UK. From Gandhi's legacy in Madurai, India, to peace initiatives in Dayton, Ohio, these museums inspire reflection, reconciliation, and activism. Visit these poignant spaces that honor the pursuit of peace and advocate for a more harmonious world.

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Exploring Peace: Museums Worldwide

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  1. 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 Peaceis growing. See the website: www.museumsforpeace.org

  2. 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.

  3. The Berlin Anti-war museum today The museum was reopened in the 1980s by Tom Spree, grandson of the museum’s founder, Ernst Friedrich.

  4. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum The museum is dedicated to the abolition of nuclear weapons

  5. Sculpture of Sadako in the Hiroshima Peace Garden of the Memorial Museum School children bringing peace cranes to the memorial sculpture of Sadako

  6. Caligraphy of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution which renounces warGrassroots House, Kochi, Japan

  7. The Peace Museum, Bradford, U.K., has art and artefacts of peace movements

  8. An exhibition of the Peace Museum in Bradford

  9. Gandhi Museum, Madurai, India

  10. Inside the Gandhi museum

  11. Sign outside the International Peace Museum, Dayton, Ohio

  12. Guernica Peace Museum Candles lit outside the museum in memory of the survivors of the bombing of Guernica in 1937

  13. Peace and Reconciliation Gallery,Herbert Museum, Coventry

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