Peace museum

A peace museum is a museum that documents historical peace initiatives. Many peace museums also provide advocacy programs for nonviolent conflict resolution.^[1] This may include conflicts at the personal, regional or international level.

Peace museums around the world

• Children's Peace Pavilion – Independence, Missouri, United States
• Fukuromachi Elementary School Peace Museum - near the peace park, across the Motuyasu river
• Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims – Hiroshima, Japan; inside the peace park
• Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum – Hiroshima, Japan; inside the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
• Honkawa Elementary School Peace Museum – Hiroshima, Japan; near the peace park, across the Honkawa river
• IJzertoren – Diksmuide, West Flanders, Belgium
• The International Peace Museum – Dayton, Ohio, United States
• Kyoto Museum for World Peace – Kyoto, Japan
• Mémorial de Caen – Caen, Normandy, France
• Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum – Nagasaki, Japan
• Norwegian Nobel Institute – Oslo, Norway
• Osaka International Peace Center
• Peace Museum – Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
• The Peace Museum – Chicago, Illinois, United States (closed)
• Yi Jun Peace Museum - The Hague, Netherlands

See also

• International Network of Museums for Peace
• Lists of museums

External links

• Peace Museums

References