Peace Museums Around the World Peace museums portray

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: www. museumsforpeace. org

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.

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

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

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

Caligraphy of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution which renounces war Grassroots House, Kochi, Japan

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

An exhibition of the Peace Museum in Bradford

Gandhi Museum, Madurai, India

Inside the Gandhi museum

Sign outside the International Peace Museum, Dayton, Ohio

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

Peace and Reconciliation Gallery, Herbert Museum, Coventry