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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
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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 Peaceis 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 1980s 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 warGrassroots House, Kochi, Japan
The Peace Museum, Bradford, U.K., has art and artefacts of peace movements
Guernica Peace Museum Candles lit outside the museum in memory of the survivors of the bombing of Guernica in 1937