Table Comparing
419 "Museums for Peace"
in 32 Categories
The Concept: The concept of "museums for peace" dates from May 2005 when the International Network of Peace Museums (INPM) changed its name to the International Network of Museums for Peace (INMP) "in order to further develop cooperation with a wider range of institutons such as museums, galleries, and libraries working for peace as well as other peace projects." Unfortunately, the INMP has subsequently done very little to define, identify, recruit, or support "museums for peace," and many such museums have still never heard of the INMP or even of the concept of "museums for peace."
The Definition: As the old name implied, the original members of the INPM were mostly "anti-war museums" or "peace museums," and they generally defined "peace" as the absense of war. But, even from the beginning of the INPM in 1992, many "peace museums" were adopting broader and broader meanings of the word "peace." The 2005 name change recognized (1) that "peace" has many meanings, (2) that the role of "peace museums" can and should be broader than just the absense of war, and (3) that many museums without the word "peace" their names also work "for peace" and are therefore like-minded institutions. The INMP statute adopted in October 2008 says that "museums, galleries, and libraries working for peace" are collectively called "museums for peace."
This List: The list at the bottom of this webpage is one person's effort and has no official status. Its objective is to indentify as many museums as possible which display and interpret a specific war (or range of wars) and/or other forms of violence (such as abuse, prejudice, and discrimination) which interfere with the realization of human potential. Such museums usually suggest ways in whch future wars can be prevented (or other forms of violence overcome) -- often by way of interpreting a specific historic example (or range of examples). This list identifies 415 such "museums for peace" worldwide. They are sorted into 31 mutually exclusive categories (averaging 13.4 museums per category) in order to explore different aspects of the "museums for peace" concept. Within each category, museums are identified with national flags -- to show how they are distributed geographically -- and with the year of their opening or dedication -- to show how they came into being over time.
Geographic Distribution: Of the 415 listed museums, 221 (53.3 percent) are in the USA and Canada, 99 (23.9 percent) are in Europe, 27 (6.5 percent) in Japan, 32 (7.7 percent) in other Asian countries, and 36 (8.7 percent) in all other countries. The list undoubtdly undercounts museums in non-Western countries -- and overcounts museums in the USA and Canada -- because of language, internet accessibility, and other data collection biases. But the list nevertheless reflects the cultural and historic diversity of North America and corrects the gross underrepresentation of the USA and Canada on previous lists.
INMP "Membership:" The INMP decided in October 2008 to collect annual dues and to keep formal membership records, but this policy has not yet been implemented, so there is still no way of identifying museums (or individuals) which actually "belong" to the INMP (despite language to the contrary on the INMP website). The INMP logo is used below to identify 53 museums (12.8 percent of the total) which are known to be associated with the INMP on the basis of their participation in INMP conferences and/or board meetings. Many, if not most, of the 362 other listed museums have probably never even heard of the INMP.
Other Lists: Since the INMP does not yet define "museums for peace" or identify its "member" institutions, all lists of "museums for peace" are unofficial, and most are the products of a small group or of a single individual using the internet as a primary source of information. Here are two examples: (1) For the most recent list (199 museums as of October 2009) compiled by Steve Fryberg, INMP website administrtor in Dayton, Ohio (USA), click here for the INMP website, then click "Members" [sic]. (2) For two lists (totaling 203 museums) published in October 2008 by Kazuyo Yamane in Kochi (Japan), click here for her "List of [138] Museums for Peace in the World except Japan," and click here for her "List of [65] Museums for Peace in Japan." (See Bibliography for specific citations.)
Differences: Every list is compiled using different objective criteria and is subject to different personal prejudices. The list of 415 museums at the bottom of this webpage endeavors (1) to expand the number of museums listed within each of its 26 categories, (2) to screen out libraries, peace studies programs, and other institutions which do not offer museum-like exhibits to the public, and (3) to exclude virtual musuems (which are not physical and permanent), traveling "musuems" (with no fixed location), and "want to be" museums (whose propects for actual realization appear to be problematic).
Symbols: Apart from flags, the following symbols ae used below to designate certain museums for peace.
= Concerns a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - 36 museums.
= Associated with International Network of Museums for Peace (INMP) - 53 museums.
= Associated with International Coalition of Sites of Conscience - 23 sites
= Operated by the National Park Service (NPS) - 19 museums.
= Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution - 18 museums.
= Connected to the National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) - 4 museums.
(01) Anti-War & World Peace
1902 - International Museum of War & Peace, Lucerne (Switzerland) Closed in 1919.
1925 - Anti-Kriegs-Museum, Berlin (Germany). Destroyed in 1933. Reopened in 1982.
1980 - Friedensmuseum Landau (Friedens Raeume), Landau/Bodensee (Germany). Reduced to a few rooms?
1982 - Friedensmuseum der Kirchengemeinde / Peace Museum, Meeder (Germany)
1987 - Vredescentrum van de Provincie en de Stad Antwerpen, Antwerp (Belgium)
1986 - International Museum of Peace & Solidarity, Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
1989 - Grass Roots House Peace Museum, Kochi (Japan)
1992 - Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan Univ., Kyoto (Japan) Co-host of 3rd & 6th Confs. See Oct. 2008 visit notes.
1993 - Peace Museum of Saitama, Saitama (Japan) See Oct. 2008 visit notes.
1993 - Erstes Osterreichisches Friedensmuseen, Wolfsegg (Austria). Closed?
1998 - The Peace Museum, Bradford (England) Host of 1st INMP Conference in 1992.
1999 - Friedenshistorisches Museum, Bad Hindelang (Germany) Closed in 2009.
2000 - Museo de la Paz en la Vall d'Uixó, Vall d'Uixó (Spain)
2001 - Europäische Museum für den Frieden, Stadtschlaining (Austria) Host of 2nd INMP Conference in 1995.
2003 - Museo para la Paz, Fundación Arias, San Juan (Costa Rica)
2003 - Föreningen Peace Museum, Uppsala (Sweden)
2003 - Center for Peace Museum, Seoul (South Korea)
2005 - Dayton International Peace Museum, Dayton, Ohio (USA)
2007 - Tehran Peace Museum, Tehran (Iran)
2008 - Peacelab-Museum, Collegno, Bologna (Italy)
2012 - Public Education Center (PEC), US Institute of Peace (USIP), Washington, DC (USA)
2013 - Envision Peace Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)
Future - Museo della Pace dei Piccoli Martiri di Gorla, Milan (Italy)
Future - International Peace Centre, Montjuic Castle, Barcelona (Spain) Site of 7th INMP Conference in 2010 or 2011.
Future - United Nations Peace Museum, Kyung Hee University, Seoul (South Korea)
Future - Pasos Museum & Center for Peacebuilding, New York City, New York (USA)
Future - International Peace Museum, Weston Hospital (former Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum), Weston, West Virginia (USA)
(02) Atomic Bomb
1955 - Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Hiroshima (Japan)
Co-host of 6th INMP Conference in 2008. See Oct. 2008 visit notes.
1955 - Atomic Bomb Museum, Nagasaki (Japan)
1975 - Peace Resource Center, Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio (USA) "Stories of Hope" added in 2008. See July 2009 visit notes.
1976 -Display House of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru (Fifth Lucky Dragon), Tokyo (Japan) See Oct. 2008 visit notes.
1995 -Oka Masaharu Memorial Peace Museum, Nagasaki (Japan)
1999 - No More Hiroshima-No More Nagisaki-Peace Musuem, Nagpur (India)
2002 - National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, Hiroshima (Japan) See Oct. 2008 visit notes.
2002 - National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, Nagasaki (Japan)
(03) Aerial Bombing (Non-Atomic)
1991 - Osaka International Peace Center, Osaka (Japan) Co-host of 3rd INMP Conference in 2003. See Oct. 2008 visit notes.
1992 - Kawasaki Peace Museum, Nakahara Peace Park, Kawasaki (Japan) See Oct. 2008 visit notes.
1996 - Himeji Historical Peace Centre, Himeji Castle, Himeji, Nyogo Prefecture (Japan)
1998 - Museo de la Paz de Gernika, Gernika (Spain) Host of 5th INMP Conference in 2005.
2002 - Centre of the Tokyo Raid & War Damage, Tokyo (Japan)
2007 - Centro de Interpretacion y Sensibilizacion para la Paz (CPAZ), Albacete (Spain)
(04) Children, Museums for
1994 - Prairie Peace Park, Seward, Nebraska (USA) Closed in 2005.
1995 - Children's Peace Pavilion, Community of Christ, Independence, Missouri (USA)
1995 - World Awareness Children's Museum, Glens Falls, New York (USA)
1998 - Kanagawa Plaza for Global Citizenship, Earth Plaza, Yokahama (Japan)
2001 - Children's Museum for Peace & Human Rights, Karachi (Pakistan)
2003 - Children's Peace Center, Acworth (39 miles from Atlanta), Georgia (USA). A traveling museum.
(05) Civil Rights, Human Rights & Women's Rights
1929 - Sewall-Belmont House & Museum, 144 Constitution Avenue, NE, Washington, DC (USA)
1977 - Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill (ERVK), Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, NPS, Val-Kill, New York (USA).
1980 - Women's Rights National Historic Park, Seneca Falls, New York (USA). National Park Service (NPS).
1985 - Osaka Human Rights Museum, Osaka (Japan)
1985 - Schwules Museum (Gay Museum), Berlin (Germany)
1987 - National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), Washington, DC (USA)
1991 - National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, Tennessee (USA) Site of MLK's assassination. See Sept. 2009 visit notes.
1992 - Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, Alabama (USA). A Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.
1993 - Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum, 460 Martin Luther King Jr. Bouleard, Savannah, Georgia (USA)
1993 - National Voting Rights Museum & Institute, Selma, Alabama (USA). Site of voting rights protests.
1994 - Sakai City Peace & Human Rights Museum, Sakai (Japan)
1994 - Centre Mondial de Paix, des Libertés et des Droits de l'Homme, Palais Épiscopal, Verdun (France)
1996 - National Women's History Museum (NWHM), Alexandria, Virginia (USA)
1997 - International Museum of Women (IMOW), 101 Howard Street (Suite 480), San Francisco, California (USA)
2000 - Women's Museum-An Institute for the Future, Dallas, Texas (USA)
2000 - Rosa Parks Library & Museum, Montgomery, Alabama (USA). Site of Parks' bus protest,
2002 - Núcleo de Preservação da Memória Política, Osorio, Sao Paulo (Brazil).
2009 - Women's Suffrage Museum, Harriet Taylor Upton Association, Warren, Ohio (USA)
2010 - International Civil Rights Center & Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina (USA). Site of original 1960 sit-in movement.
2012 - Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada)
Future - Center for Civil & Human Rights (CCHR), Atlanta, Georgia (USA)
Future - Susan B. Anthony House, Rochester, New York (USA)
(06) Civil Strife & Reconciliation (e.g. Apartheid)
1994 - District Six Museum, Cape Town, Western Cape (South Africa).
1997 - Parque por la Paz Villa Grimaldi, Santiago (Chile).
1997 - Taipei 228 Memorial Museum, Taipei (Taiwan)
1999 - Pusan Democracy Park, Pusan (South Korea)
2001 - Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg (South Africa)
Date? - Red Location Apartheid Museum-A Symbol of Our Freedom, Red Location, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape (South Africa)
Date? - Kwa-Muhle Apartheid Museum, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
Date? - Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen / Museum of the Word and Image, (El Salvador).
Date? - Centro Cultural Museo de la Memoria, Montevideo Uruguay).
2007 - National 228 Memorial Museum, Taipei (Taiwan)
2007 - Cambodia Landmine Museum, Angkor (Cambodia)
2008 - Interfaith Peace Museum, Interfaith League Against Poverty (I-LAP), Islamabad (Pakistan)
2008 - Sahajeevana Center for Coexistence, Columbo (Sri-Lanka)
2009 - Workers' Library and Museum, Newtown, Johannesburg, Gauteng (South Africa)
Future - Memoria Abierta, Buenos Aires (Argentina).
Future - Museum of National Peace, Amichi, Anambra (Nigeria)
Future - National Museum of Liberia, Monrovia (Liberia)
(07) Climate & Natural Environment
1967 - Visitors Center, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado (USA). 2007
1967 - Environment Museum, Environment Canada, Biosphere, Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
1991 - Biosphere 2, Oracle, Arizona (USA)
1998 - Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH), Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
2001 - Eden Project, St. Blazey, Cornwall (England)
2008 - California Academy of Sciences (Green Museum), San Francisco, California (USA)
2009 - David Brower Center, Berkeley, California (USA)
2009 - Klimahaus Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven (Germany)
(08) Cold War, The
1962 - Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin (Germany)
1998 - Alliierten Museum / Allied Museum, Berlin (Germany)
Future - Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, site of Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, Arvada, Colorado (USA)
Future - Cold War Museum, site of Lorton Nike Missile Base, Lorton, Virginia (USA)
(09) Colonialism & Imperialism
1897 - Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale (MRAC), Tervuren, near Brussels (Belgium)
1920 - Imperial War Museum, Southwark, London (England). Shows all "consequences of conflict."
Future -
Grand Musée de l'Afrique (GMA), Union Africaine (UA), Algiers (Algeria)
(10) Crime & Gangs (including hate crimes & the Mafia)
Date? - Narcotics Museum, Mexico City (Mexico)
2005 - Civil Rights Memorial Center, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Montgomery, Alabama (USA). SPLC since 1971.
2008 - National Museum of Crime & Punishment (NMCP), 575-7th Street, NW, Washington, DC (USA)
Future - Floating Peace Museum, Bovalino, near Locri, Calabria (Italy). Against the Mafia.
(11) Food & Shelter
1942 - Koinonia Partners, Kononia Farm, 1324 Georgia Highway 49 South, Americus, Georgia (USA)
1971 - Discovery Museum, World Forestry Center (WFC), Washington Park, Portland, Oregon (USA)
1986 - Agropolis-Museum, Agropolis International, Montpelier (France). "Banquet de l'Humanite"
1988? - Grain Academy Museum, Calgary Stampede Park, Calgary, Alberta (Canada)
2003 - Global Village & Discovery Center, Habitat for Humanity, Americus, Georgia (USA)
2009 - Heifer Village, Heifer International Center, Little Rock, Arkansas (USA)
(12) Genocide (e.g. the Holocaust)
1947 - Terezin-Memorial National Cultural Monument, Litomerice (Czech Republic)
1947 - Muzeum Auschswitz-Birkenau, Auschswitz (Poland)
1953 - Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum, Jerusalem (Israel)
1960 - Anne Frank House, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
1965 - Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, Dachau (Germany)
1975 - Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp, Mauthausen & Gusen (Austria)
Date? - Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork, Middenveld, Drenthe (Netherlands)
1976 - Genocide Museum, October 21 Memorial Park, Desankin venac, Kragujevac
(Serbia)
1977 - Anne Frank Center USA, New York City, New York (USA)
1980 - Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
1992 - Memorial & Education Site House of the Wannsee Conference, Berlin (Germany)
1992 - Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida (USA)
1993 - US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC (USA)
1993 - Museum of Tolerence, Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), Los Angeles, California (USA)
1995 - Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute, Yerevan (Armenia)
1996 - Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, Texas (USA)
1996 - William Breman Jewish Heritage & Holocaust Museum, Atlanta, Georgia (USA)
1997 - Museum of Jewish Heritage & a Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Edmond J. Safra Plaza, New York, New York (USA)
Date? - Cambodian Cultural Museum & Killing Fields Memoral, Seattle, Washington (USA)
2001 - Holocaust & Intolerance Museum of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA) See Sept. 2009 visit notes.
2003 - Halabja Martyrs Monument & Museum, Halabja, Kurdistan (Iraq)
2004 - New York Tolerance Center (NYTC),
Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), New York City, New York (USA)
2004 - Kigali Memorial Centre, Kigali (Rwanda)
2005 - Center on Resistance & Deportation, Natzweiler-Struthof, Alsace (France)
2008 - National Sikh Heritage Centre & Holocaust Museum, Derby (England)
Date? - Ulica Pomorska / Pomorska Street, Historical Museum, Krakow (Poland).
2009 - Fabryka Schindlera / Schindler’s Factory, Historical Museum, Krakow (Poland).
Future - Armenian Genocide Museum of America (AGMA), 615-14th Street, NW, Washington, DC (USA)
Future - Center for Human Dignity-Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem,
Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), Jerusalem (Israel)
(13) Health Care & Clean Water
1887 - National Museum of of Health & Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 6900 Georgia Avenue, NW, Washington, DC (USA)
1965 - Archives of the Hist of Amer Psychology (AHAP), University of Akron, Akron, Ohio (USA). A Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.
1969 - John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science, Houston, Texas (USA)
1975 - Clara Barton National Historic Site, 5801 Oxford Road (at MacArthur Boulevard), Glen Echo, Washington, DC (USA). 
1985 - Public Hospital for Persons of Insane & Disordered Minds, Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia (USA)
Date? - Global Health Odyssey Museum, Ctrs for Disease Control (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia (USA). A Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.
1994 - Glore Psychiatric Museum, St. Joseph, Missouri (USA)
1995 - Psychiatry The Industry of Death Museum, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), Los Angeles, California (USA)
1996 - National Museum of Civil War Medicine, 48 East Patrick Street, Frederick, Maryland (USA)
2008 - Mental Health Musuem, Provo, Utah (USA)
Future - National Health Museum (NHM), near Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta, Georgia (USA)
Date? - Cambodian Cultural Museum & Killing Fields Memorial, 9809-16th Avenue SW, White Center, Seattle, Washington (USA)
(14) Immigration, Emigration & Ethnicity:
1856 - Musee Canadien des Civilisations / Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec (Canada)
1967 - Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, Washington (USA). A Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.
1976 - Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Historical Society of Philadelphia, 18 South 7th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)
1980 - Doukhobor Village Museum, Verigin, Saskatchewan (Canada)
1984 - Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, New York (USA)
1985 - Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, California (USA). A Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.
1987 - Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, 1290 Richmond Road, Staunton, Shennadoah Valley, Virginia (USA)
1987 - Wing Luke Asian Museum (WLAM), 719 South King Street, Seattle, Washington (USA). A Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.
1987 - Doukhobor Village Museum, Castlegar, British Columbia (Canada)
Date? - Grosse Île & Irish Memorial National Historic Site of Canada, Grosse Île, Québec (Canada)
Date? - Ulster American Folk Park (UAFP), National Museums Northern Ireland, Omagh (Northern Ireland)
1988 - Lower East Side Tenement Museum, 97 Orchard Street, New York City, New York (USA), National Park Service (NPS).
1990 - Ellis Island National Monument, Ellis Island, New York City, New York (USA). National Park Service (NPS).
1999 - Pier 21: Canada's Immigration Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada)
1999 - Galeria Museum & Cultural Center, Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose, California (USA). A Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.
2004 - Canadian Museum of Hindu Civilization (CMOHC), Toronto, Ontario (Canada). "Dedicated to world peace."
2005 - Arab American National Museum (AANM), Dearborn, Michigan (USA). A Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.
(15) Indigenous Peoples (e.g. Native Americans)
1936 - Ocmulgee National Monument, National Park Service (NPS), Macon, Georgia (USA)
1948 - Museum of the Cherokee Indian, Cherokee, North Carolina (USA)
Date? - Taos Pueblo, Taos, New Mexico (USA). UNESCO World Heritage Site. National Historic Landmark.
1962 - New Echota State Park, Calhoun, Georgia (USA)
1967 - Marin Museum of the American Indian, 2200 Novato Boulevard, Novato, Marin County, California (USA)
1972? - James F. Corn Interpretive Center, Red Clay State Historic Park, Bradley County, Tennessee (USA)
1974 - Cherokee National Museum, Park Hill, Oklahoma (USA) See Sept. 2009 visit notes.
1977 - Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Evanston, Illinois (USA)
1977 - Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Antropology (MIAC), Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA)
1981 - Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Interpretive Centre & Museum, Highway 785, Fort Macleod, Alberta (Canada)
1982 - Red Cloud Museum, Red Cloud Indian School, Pine Ridge, South Dakota (USA)
1986 - Sequoyah Birthplace Museum, Vonore, Tennessee (USA). Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
Date? - Museum of the Cumberland County Historical Society (CCHS), Carlisle, Pennslyvania (USA). Shows Carlisle Indian School.
Date? - Aboriginal Museum & Cultural Centre, Whistler, British Columbia (Canada)
Date? - Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australa (Australia)
Date? - Museum of Aboriginal Cultures, Cuenca (Ecuador)
Date? - Museum of the Indian, between Rua Sao Clemente & Sao Joao Batista Cemetery, Botafogo Quarter, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
1987 - Brasilia Memorial Museum of the Indian People, Braslia (Brazil)
1987 - Frisco Native American Museum & Natural History Center, Frisco, Outer Banks, North Carolina (USA)
1989 - Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians & Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana (USA)
1991 -
Akta Lakota Sioux Museum & Cultural Center, St. Joseph's Indian School, Chamberlain, South Dakota (USA)
1999 - Alaska Native Heritage Center (ANHC), Anchorage, Alaska (USA)
2004 - National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (USA)
Future - California Indian Heritage Center, West Sacramento, California (USA)
(16) International Friendship
Date? - International Friendship Exhibition, Myohyangsan / Mt. Myohyang (North Korea)
2007 - Quanzhou Taiwan Friendship Museum, North section of Bei Qing Lu Quanzhou, Fujian Province (China)
(17) International Organizations
1913 - Peace Palace (World Court), The Hague (The Netherlands) Site of 8th INMP Conference in 2013?
1927 - Esperantomuseum, Austrian National Library, Vienna (Austria)
1946 - League of Nations Museum, Geneva (Switzerland)
1950 - United Nations Headquarters, New York City, New York (USA). 
1959 - Museo Internazionale Della Croce Rossa, Castiglione della Stiviere (Italy).
1988 - International Red Cross & Red Crescent Museum, Geneva (Switzerland).
1993 - Musée olympique & Olympic Studies Center, Lausanne (Switzerland)
(18) Jewish History (Not including Holocaust)
1904 - The Jewish Museum, New York City, New York (USA)
1932 -
Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
1949 - Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, West Galilee (Israel)
1960 - Jewish Museum of Maryland (JMM), Baltimore, Maryland (USA)
1976 - National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH), Philadelphia, PA (USA) A Smithsonian Affiliate. New bldg. in 2010.
1984 - Contemporary Jewish Museum, Yerba Buena Gardens district, San Francisco, California (USA)
1993? - Jewish Museum of Greece, Athens (Greece)
1997 - Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York City, New York (USA)
2000 - Center for Jewish History (CJH), New York, NY (USA). Five Jewish historical societies. A Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.
2001 - Judisches Museum Berlin/Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin (Germany)
2004 - Danish Jewish Museum, Copenhagen (Denmark)
2004 - Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow (Poland)
2012 - Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw (Poland)
(19) National Occupation & Resistance
1869 - Yushukan Museum, Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo (Japan) See Oct. 2008 visit notes.
Date? - National Showa Memorial Museum, Tokyo (Japan)
1946 - National War & Resistance Museum, Overloon (The Netherlands)
1966 - Norway's Resistance Museum, Oslo (Norway)
1968 - German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin (Germany)
1975 - War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
1985 - Dutch Resistance Museum, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
1985 - Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, Nanjing (China)
1987 - Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Beijng (China)
1992 -
Musée de la Résistance, Lyon (France)
1993 - Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, Riga (Latvia)
1996 - Liberation War Museum, 5 Segun Bagicha, Dhaka (Bangladesh).
2001 -
Changi Chapel & Museum (Singapore)
2001 - Bethlehem Peace Center, Bethlehem (Palestine)
2004 - Jeju Peace Musuem, Jeju Island (South Korea)
2005 - Women's Active Museum on War & Peace (WAM), Tokyo (Japan)
(20) Nobel Prize & Nobel Laureates (e.g. MLK)
1923 - Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Hist Site, New York, NY (USA). National Park Service (NPS). 1906
Date? - Sagamore Hill National Hist Site, Long Island, NY (USA). National Park Service (NPS). 1906
Date? - House Museum & Memorial to Charles G. Dawes, Evanston Hist Society, Evanston, Illinois (USA). 1925
Date? - Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Chicago, Illinois (USA). 1931
Date? - Pearl S. Buck Birthplace & Museum, Hillsboro, Pocahontas County, West Virginia (USA) 1938
Date? - Pearl S. Buck House, Pearl S. Buck International, Perkasie, Pennsylvania (USA) 1938
1961 - Woodrow Wilson House, Washington, DC (USA). National Trust. 1919
1964 - George C. Marshall Museum & Research Library, Lexington, Virginia (USA). 1953
1966 - T.M.C. Asser Instituut, The Hague (Netherlands) 1911
1967 - Musée Albert Schwietzer, Gunsbach (France). 1952
1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Atlanta, Georgia (USA). 1964
1969 - Henri Dunant Museum, Heiden (Switzerland). 1901
1974 - Frank B. Kellogg House, St. Paul, Minnesota (USA). 1929
1976 - Ralph Bunche Peace & Heritage Center, South Los Angeles, California (USA). 1950
1980 - Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site, Atlanta, Georgia (USA). National Park Service (NPS). 1964
1983 - Albert Einstein Institution, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA). 1921
Date? - Memorial Museum of Mother Teresa, Skopje (Macedonia). 1979
1981 - Musée Albert Schweitzer, Kaysersberg (France). 1952
Date? - Ancien Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, Lambaréné (Gabon). 1952
1988 - Jimmy Carter National Historic Site, Plains, Georgia (USA). National Park Service (NPS). 2002
1990 - Cordell Hull Birthplace & Museum State Park, Byrdstown, Tennessee (USA). 1945
2001 - Nobel Museum, Stockholm (Sweden).
2005 - Nobels Fredssenter / Nobel Peace Center, Vestbanestasjon, Oslo (Norway).
2010 - Desmond Tutu Peace Centre, Cape Town (South Africa). 1984
Future - Linus Pauling Inst, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, Oregon (USA). 1954 1962
Future - Norman Borlaug Historic Preservation Project, Cresco, Iowa (USA). 1970
Future - Pugwash Peace Exchange, Pugwash, Nova Scotia (Canada). 1995
(21) Organized Labor & Labor Leaders
1982? - American Labor Museum, Botto House National Landmark, Borough of Haledon, Paterson, New Jersey (USA)
1986? - John L. Lewis Memorial Museum of Mining & Labor, Lucas, Iowa (USA)
1993 - Thai Labor Museum, Bangkok (Thailand)
1995 - A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum, Chicago, Illinois (USA)
2000 - Solidarity Museum, Gdansk (Poland) 1983
(22) Pacifism, Quakers & Conscientious Objection
1974 - Friends Center, 15th & Cherry Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA). 1947
Date? - Non-Combatant Corps Exhibition Centre, Richmond Castle, Richmond, North Yorkshire (England)
Date? - Meriam R. Hare Quaker Heritage Center, Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio (USA)
1988 - Pacifist Living History Museum, Peace Abbey Multi-Faith Retreat Center, Sherborn, Massachusetts (USA)
1989 - Quaker Tapestry, Friends Meeting House, Kendal, Cumbria (England)
1998 - Friedensmuseum Nurnberg, Nurnberg (Germany)
Future - National Peace Museum
of Conscientious Objection & Anti-war Activism, Presidio, San Francisco, California (USA)
(23) Peace Art & Artists
1967 - Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels, Saitama (Japan)
1971 - Rothko Chapel, University of St. Thomas, 1409 Sul Ross, Houston, Texas (USA)
1981 - The Peace Museum, Chicago, Illinois (USA). No longer has building, exhibits elsewhere.
1981 - National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois (USA)
1986 - Swords Into Plowshares Peace Center & Gallery, Central United Methodist Church, Detroit, Michigan (USA)
1987 - Lion & Lamb Peace Arts Center, Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio (USA)
1990 - Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts, 227 East Kennedy Bouleard, Eatonville, Florida (USA)
1998 - Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabruck (Germany)
Date? - Natural World Museum (NWM), San Francisco, California (USA). Partner of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
2000 - National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)
2003 - Art, War & Peace Museum, Jansen Beach and/or Miami, Florida (USA)
2009 - Missing Peace Art Space, Dayton, Ohio (USA)
(24) Peace Documentation Centers
1930 - Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (USA)
1945 - Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
1970 - Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, Dharamsala (India)
1981 - Antikriegshaus Sievershausen (Dokumentationsstätte zu Kriegsgeschehen & über Friedensarbeit), Sievershausen (Germany)
1984 - Friedensbibliothek & Antikriegsmuseum, Berlin (Germany)
1993 - Centro Documentazione Manifesto Pacifista, Bologne (Italy)
1995 - Documentation Center of Cambodia, Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
2000 - Traces Center for History & Culture, St. Paul, Minnesota (USA)
2006 - Chukiren Peace Memorial Museum, Saitama Prefecture (Japan)
(25) Peacemakers other than Nobel Laureates
1865 - Ford's Theater, Ford's Theater National Nistoric Site, Washington, DC (USA). National Park Service (NPS).
1887 - Home of Abraham & Mary Todd Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois (USA). National Park Service (NPS).
1902 - Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House (MFNH), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
Date? - Clara Barton Birthplace Museum, Barton Ctr for Diabetes Education, 66 Clara Barton Rd, North Oxford, Massachusetts (USA)
Date? - Walden Pond State Reservation (including Thoreau cabin reconstruction), Concord & Lincoln, Massachusetts (USA)
1922 - Comenius Museum, Naarden (Netherlands)
Date? -
Jan Amos Comenius Museum, Uherský Brod (Czech Republic)
1955 - Gandhi Memorial Museum, Tammukkam, Madurai (India)
1961 - National Gandhi Museum & Library, New Delhi (India)
Date? - Ghandi Sangaralaya, Mani Bhavan, Mumbai, Maharashtra (India) See Dec. 2006 visit notes.
Date? - Gandhi Mandapam, Kanniyakumari, Tamil Nadu (India)
1963 - Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya, Ahmedabad, Gugerat (India) See Jan. 2007 visit notes.
1969 - Aga Kahn Palace (Gandhi prison), Pune, Maharashtra (India)
1969? - Gandhi Darshan or Samadhi, Rajghat, New Delhi (India)
1969 - Winston Churchill Memorial & Library, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri (USA)
<1988 - Maison d'Erasme / House of Erasmus, Anderleht District, Brussels (Belgium)
1973 - Gandhi Smriti, Birla House, New Delhi (India) See Jan. 2007 visit notes.
1977 - Abraham Lincoln Library & Museum, Lincoln Memorial University (LMU), Harrogate, Tennessee (USA)
1878 - Alex Haley Boyhood Home & Museum, 200 South Church Street, Henning, Tennessee (USA).
1987 - Florence Nightengale Museum, London (England)
1990 - E.F. Schumacher Society Library, South Egremont, Massachusetts (USA)
1993 - Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum, Council for Secular Humanism, Dresden, New York (USA)
1995 - Yi Jun Peace Museum, The Hague (Netherlands)
1996 - Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum, Osnabruck (Germany)
1996 - Mary Todd Lincoln House & Beula C. Nunn Garden, 578 West Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky (USA)
1999? - Chiune Sugihara House-Museum, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2000 - Chiune Sugihara Memorial Hall & Museum, Gifu (Japan)
2000 - John Lennon Museum, Saitama Super Arena, Saitama City, Saitama (Japan)
2000? - Phoenix Settlement & Mahatma Gandhi Museum, Bambayi, Inanda, near Durban (South Africa)
Date? - Apteka pod Orlem / Eagle Pharmacy, Historical Museum, Krakow (Poland).
2005 - Huis van Erasmus / House of Erasmus, St. Huis van Erasmus,
Bergweg 279-B, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
2005 - Erasmushuis Rotterdam / Erasmus House, Grotekerkplein 5, 3011 GC, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
2005 - Muhammad Ali Center, Louisville, Kentucky (USA)
2008 - President Lincoln's Cottage, Soldiers' Home, Washington, DC (USA)
(26) Selected Presidential Libraries
1941 - Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum, Hyde Park, New York (USA).
1943 - Theodore Roosevelt Collection & Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA). 1906
1957 - Harry Truman Presidential Library & Museum, Independence, Missouri (USA).
1982 - Jimmy Carter Library & Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (USA). 2002
1990 - Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia (USA). 1919
2004 - Bill Clinton Presidential Library & Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas (USA).
2005 - Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum, Springfield, Illinois (USA)
Future - Barak Obama Presidential Library, City?, Illinois (USA). 2009
(27) Prisons & Prisoner Abuse
1952 - Plötzensee [Prison] Memorial Center, Berlin (Germany)
1972 - Manzanar [War Relocation Center] National Historic Site, Lone Pine, California (USA). National Park Service (NPS).
1984 - Central Museum of Prisoners of War, Lambinowice (Poland)
1992 - Steinwache [Prison] Memorial Centre, Dortmund (Germany)
1993 - Robben Island [Prison] Museum, Robben Island (South Africa)
1994 - Gulag Museum at Perm-36, 10 Gagarina Boulevard, Perm, Popova, Siberia (Russia)
1995 - Constitution Hill, Old Fort Prison Complex, Braamfontein, Johannesburg (South Africa).
1996 - Mednoye State Memorial Complex, State Museum of Political History, Mednoye (Russia).
1999 - The Workhouse, National Trust, Upton Road, Southwell, Notts (England).
1999 - National Prisoner of War Museum, Andersonville, Georgia (USA)
2002 - Green Island Human Rights Memorial Park, Green Island (Taiwan)
2007 - Taipei Human Rights Culture Park, Jingmei (Taiwan)
2010 - Museo de la Memoria / Museum of Memory, Rosario (Argentina)
Future - Amache Japanese Internment Camp, Granada, Colorado (USA)
Future - Topaz Museum, c/o Great Basin Museum, Delta, Utah (USA)
Future - "Global Peace Center," Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California (USA)
(28) Racism (e.g. African-American History)
1893 - Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum, Grants Park, Atlanta, Georgia (USA)
1895 - Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, 1411 W Street, SE, Washngton, DC (USA). National Park Service (NPS).
1957 - DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago, Illinois (USA)
1965 - Charles Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, Michigan (USA)
1974 - African American Museum (AAM), Dallas, Texas (USA). A Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.
1974 - Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site, 1212 West Montgomery Road, Tuskegee, Alabama (USA)
1974 - Penn School District & Museum (Penn Center), Land's End Road, Frogmore, St. Helena Island, South Carolina (USA)
Date? - Tuskegee Human & Civil Rights Multicultural Center, 104 South Elm Street, Tuskegee, Alabama (USA)
Date? - Nachez Museum of African American History & Culture, 301 Main Street, Natchez, Mississippi (USA)
1976 - African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA). A Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.
1981 - California African American Museum (CAAM), San Francisco, California (USA)
1981 - African American Panoramic Experience (APEX Museum), Atlanta, Georgia (USA)
1985 - Harriet Tubman African American Museum, Macon, Georgia (USA)
1987 - Charlotte Hawkns Brown Museum State Historic Site, Sedalia, North Carolina (USA)
1995 - Greenwood Cultural Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma (USA). Site of race riot in 1921.
1998 - Robert Russa Moton Museum, Main Street & Griffin Boulevard, Farmville, Virginia (USA)
1998 - Albany Civil Rights Institute (ACRI), Old Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 326 Whitney Avenue, Albany, Georgia (USA)
1998 - Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site, 2125 West Fourteenth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas (USA).
Date? - Brown v. Board of Education Nat Hist Site, 15th & Monroe Streets, Topeka, Kansas (USA). National Park Service (NPS).
Date? - Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memoribilia, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan (USA) "A black holocaust museum."
2003 - Dunbar House State Memorial, Dayton, Ohio (USA).
2005 - Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD), San Francisco, California (USA)
2005 - Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African Amer Hist, Baltimore, Maryland (USA). A Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.
2006 - Green McAdoo Cultural Center, Clinton, Tennessee (USA). Site of school integration in 1956.
2015 - National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC), National Mall, Washington, DC (USA).
Future - World Against Racism Memorial Museum, Lincoln, Vermont (USA)
(29) Slavery & Bondage
1906 - Wilberforce House Museum, Hull (England)
1927 - Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia (USA)
1939 - Somerset Place State Historic Site, Lake Phelps, Creswell, North Carolina (USA)
1949? - Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site, Dawn, near Dresden, Kent County, Ontario (Canada)
1966 - Slave Lodge, South African Cultural History Museum, Cape Town (South Africa).
Date? - Booker T. Washington National Monument, near Roanoke, Virginia (USA). National Park Service (NPS).
Date? - Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Washngton, DC (USA). National Park Service (NPS).
1990s - Cape Coast Castle Museum, Cape Coast (Ghana)
Date? - St. George's Castle, Elmina (Ghana)
Date? - Maison des Esclaves / House of Slaves Museum, Ile de Goree (Senegal).
1998 - Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, Moton Field, 1616 Chappie James Avenue, Tuskegee, Alabama (USA).
2000 - Freedom Schooner Amistad, New Haven, Connecticut (USA). Sails to other ports.
2002 - Slavery & Civil War Museum, Selma, Alabama (USA)
2004 - National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (USA). A Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.
2007 - International Slavery Museum, Liverpool (England)
Future - US National Slavery Museum, Fredericksburg, Virginia (USA)
(30) Terrorism & Torture
Date? - Torture Museum, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Date? - Medieval Torture Museum, San Gimignano (Italy)
2000 - Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (USA). National Park Service (NPS).
2001 - Bruderhof Peace Barn, Spring Valley Bruderhof, Farmington, Pennsylvania (USA). Opened after 9/11. Still exists?
2002 - House of Terror Museum, Budapest (Hungary)
Date? - Historical Torture Museum, Presidio's Main Post, San Francisco, California (USA)
2008 - Center for Empowered Living & Learning (CELL), Denver, Colorado (USA)
Future - National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center (Ground Zero), New York, New York (USA)
(31) Unique & Unusual Museums
1932 - International Peace Garden, Dunseith, North Dakota (USA) & Boissevain, Manitoba (Canada). In both countries.
1978 - Peace Pentagon (Muste Building), A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, 339 Lafayette Street, New York City, New York (USA)
1983 - "Peace Boat" (SS Topaz), Yokohama (Japan). Makes world cruises.
1987 - Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC), Chicago, Illinois (USA). New facility under construction.
1991 - World Peace Sanctuary, World Peace Prayer Society, Wassaic, New York (USA). Promotes World Peace Prayer.
1997 - Newseum, Washington, DC (USA) "Most interactive museum."
2004 - National Museum of Patriotism, Luckie Marietta District, Atlanta, Georgia (USA). Includes 9/11, immigration & voting exhibits.
2008 - Millenium Gate & Museum, Atlantic Station, Atlanta, Georgia (USA)
(32) World Wars
1912 - Cairn of Peace & Museum Brnenska, Prace (Czech Republic)
1926 - Liberty Memorial & National World War I Museum, Kansas City, Missouri (USA) See Sept. 2009 visit notes.
1930 - IJzertoren Museum of War, Peace & Flemish Emancipation, Diksmuide (Belgium) Host of 4th INMP Conference in 2003.
1962 - USS Arizona Memorial Musuem, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii (USA). National Park Service (NPS).
1972 - Das Deutsche Haus (Bando), Naruto (Japan)
1975 - Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum, Okinawa (Japan)
1975 - Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots, Cuhiran (Japan)
1977 - E. Stanley Wright Museum of World War II, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire (USA)
1980 - Bridge at Remagen Peace Museum, Remagen (Germany)
1988 - Memorial pour la Paix de Caen, Caen, Normandy (France)
1990 - Musée de la Mémoire et de la Paix, Clerval (France)
1998 - In Flanders Fields Museum, Lakenhallen Grote Markt, Ieper/Ypres (Belgium)
2002 - Fondazione Scuola di Pace di Monte Sole / Peace School Foundation, Parco Storico, Monte Sole (Italy).
2006 - John Rabe International Safety Zone Memorial Hall, Beijing (China)