Peace Museums: Helping to build a Culture of Peace

When you first hear of a ‘Peace Museum’ you may be slightly mystified or perhaps even a bit sceptical. It is easy to imagine what goes in a ‘War Museum’, but what can you put in a ‘Peace Museum’?

Peace is a worldwide ideal for every generation. But Peace doesn’t come spontaniously. Violence and war seems to be a more natural respons to conflicts. The  goal of a Peace Museum is ‘helping to build a Peace Culture’, converting ‘civilization of war to a culture of peace’. Every museum is doing that on its own valuable way. This website collects all these museums and organizations.

Peace doesn’t appear when you snap your fingers, it’s a process where every human being is involved in. Peace Museums are centres were people can experience this fact, that violence never carries peace. They illustrate that only understandig, respect for everyone, tolerance, dialogue...show us the path to peace, that every human is needed in the proces to peace

By using education, activities, publications, exhibitions about historical events, peace museums show that unawareness of the facts above have supported war and violence in the past. The strength of Peace Museums is that they attract ‘the general public’ and not only people involved in the ‘Peace Movement’ They can mean a real surplus value for building a ‘Culture of Peace’.

Peaceful wishes

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