Table Comparing
Traditional "Peace Museums"
& Other "Museums for Peace"
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Promotes "peace" as the "absense of war."
Opposes war. May also relate to other forms of peace or violence. | Promotes any kind of peace or human rights -- or an individual peacemaker. May oppose war, but usually focuses on another form of violence, e.g. crime, conflict, discrimintion, intolerance, poverty, segregation, ignorance, slavery, terrorism, human suffering, or environmental abuse. |
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The word "peace" (or "anti-war") is usually (but not always) in the name of the museum. "Peace" is the one best word to describe the main purpose of the museum. |
The word "peace" is usually not in the name of the museum -- or the museum is part of a larger institution. The one best word to describe the main purpose of the museum is a word other than "peace." |
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 History of International Network |
1995 - 2nd Conference, Stadtschlaining, Austria 1998 - "Peace Museums Worldwide" by Van Den Dungen et al 1998 - 3rd Conference, Osaka & Kyoto, Japan 2003 - 4th Conference, Diksmuide, Belgium 2005 - 5th Conference, Gernika, Spain; INPM renamed INMP |
2008 - "Museums for Peace Worldwide" by K. Yamane 2008 - "Museums for Peace: Past Present & Future" 2010 or 1011 - 7th Conference, venue? 2013 - 8th Conference, The Hague, Netherlands (tentative) |
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The 1998 directory (left image) is 79 pages and names 61 "peace museums." It was published by the United Nations and is available in paperback only. On-line directories are provided by Wikipedia, INMP, the Kyoto Museum for World Peace, and other peace museums. Click here to see "peace museums" on this website. | The 2008 directory (right image) is 89 pages and names 240 "museums for peace." It was published by the organizing commitee of the 6th conference and is available in paperback only. Click here to see "museums for peace" on this website. |
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 Examples in Europe
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1902 - Intl Museum of War & Peace, Lucerne (closed in 1919)
1925 - Anti-Kriegs-Museum, Berlin (destroyed '33, open '82) 1930 -  IJzertoren Museum of War/Peace/Flemish Emancipation
1980 - Bridge at Remagen Peace Museum, Remagen, Germany
1980 - Friedensmuseum Landau, Landau/Bodensee, Germany 1981 - Antikriegshaus Sievershausen, Sievershausen, Germany 1984 - Friedensbibliothek & Antikriegsmuseum, Berlin, Germ 1987 - Vredescentrum van de Provincie en de Stad Antwerpen 1988 - Memorial pour la Paix de Caen, Caen, France
1993 - Erstes Osterreichisches Friedensmuseen, Wolfsegg
1995 - Yi Jun Peace Museum, The Hague, Netherlands
1998 - Friedensmuseum Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
1998 - Museo de la Paz de Gernika, Gernika, Spain
1998 - The Peace Museum, Bradford, England
1999 - Friedenshistorisches Museum, Bad Hindelang, Germany 2000 - Museo de la Paz en la Vall d'Uixó, Vall d'Uixó, Spain
2001 - Europäische Mus für den Frieden,Stadtschlaining,Austria
2003 - Föreningen Peace Museum, Uppsala, Sweden 2005 - Nobels Fredssenter, Vestbanestasjon, Oslo, Norway
2007 - Interprtn Ctr for Peace & Awareness, Albacete, Spain 2008 - Peacelab-Museum, Collegno, Bologna, Italy
Future - Museo della Pace dei Piccoli Martiri di Gorla, Milan
Future - Intl. Peace Centre, Montjuic Castle, Barcelona, Spain
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1906 - Wilberforce House Museum (anti-slavery), Hull, UK
1912 - Cairn of Peace & Museum Brnenska, Czech Republic
1913 - Peace Palace (World Court), The Hague, Netherlands 1945 - Netherlands Inst. for War Documentation
1946 - League of Nations Museum, Geneva, Switzerland 1946 - Nat War & Resistance Mus, Overloon, Netherlands 1947 - Terezin Memorial, Litomerice, Czech Republic
1947 - Muzeum Auschswitz-Birkenau, Auschswitz, Poland 1952 - Plötzensee [Prison] Memorial Center, Berlin, Germany 1959 - Museo Internazionale Della Croce Rossa, Italy 1960 - Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1962 - Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin 1965 - Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, Dachau 1966 - Norway's Resistance Museum, Oslo, Norway 1967 - Musée Albert Schwietzer, Gunsbach, France 1968 - German Resistance Memorial Center, Berlin, Germany 1969 - Henri Dunant Museum, Heiden, Switzerland Date? - Mem Museum of Mother Teresa, Skopje, Macedonia 1976 - Genocide Museum, Kragujevac, Serbia 1981 - Musée Albert Schweitzer, Kaysersberg, France 1984 - Cent Mus of Prisoners of War, Lambinowice, Poland 1985 - Dutch Resistance Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1987 - Florence Nightengale Museum, London, England 1988 - International Red Cross & Red Crescent Museum
1989 - Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum, Osnabruck 1992 - Musée de la Résistance, Lyon, France 1992 - Mem & Educ Site House of the Wannsee Conf, Berlin 1993 - Musée olympique & Olympic Studies Ctr, Lausanne 1993 - Centro Documentazione Manifesto Pacifista, Bologne 1994 - Centre Mondial de Paix/Libertés/Droits de l'Homme 1999? - Sugihara House-Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania 2000 - Solidarity Museum, Gdansk, Poland 2002 - House of Terror Museum, Budapest, Hungary 2004 - Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow, Poland 2005 - Ctr on Resistance & Deportation, Natzweiler, France 2007 - International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, England |
 Examples in Japan
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1955 - Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima
1975 - Okinawa Pref Peace Memorial Museum, Okinawa 1989 - Grass Roots House Peace Museum, Kochi
1991 - Osaka International Peace Center, Osaka
1992 - Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan Univ
1992 - Kawasaki Peace Museum & Nakahara Peace Park
1993 - Peace Museum of Saitama, Saitama
1994 - Sakai City Peace & Human Rights Museum, Sakai
1995 - Oka Masaharu Memorial Peace Museum, Nagasaki
2002 - Centre of the Tokyo Raid & War Damage, Tokyo
2005 - Women's Active Museum of War & Peace, Tokyo
2006 - Chukiren Peace Memorial Museum, Saitama 2006 - Wadatsumi-no-koe Memorial Hall, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 2007 - Yamanashi Peace Museum, Kocu City, Yamanashi |
1869 - Yushukan Museum, Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo
1955 - Atomic Bomb Museum, Nagasaki
1967 - Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels, Saitama
1972 - Das Deutsche Haus (Bando), Naruto
1975 - Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots, Cuhiran 1976 - Display House of the Fifth Lucky Dragon, Tokyo
1983 - "Peace Boat" (SS Topaz), Yokohama, Japan
1985 - Osaka Human Rights Museum, Osaka Date? - National Showa Memorial Museum, Tokyo 1996 - Himeji Historical Peace Centre, Himeji 1998 - Kanagawa Plaza for Global Citizenship, Yokahama 2000 - Chiune Sugihara Memorial Hall & Museum, Gifu 2000 - John Lennon Museum, Saitama |
  Examples
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1981 - The Peace Museum, Chicago, IL (no longer has bldg.)
1994 - Prairie Peace Park, Seward, NE (closed in 2005) 1995 - Children's Peace Pavilion, Com of Christ, Independence 2005 - Dayton International Peace Museum, Dayton, OH
2013 - Envision Peace Museum, Philadelphia, PA Future - Pasos Museum & Center for Peacebuilding, NY, NY
Future - Nat Peace Mus Cons Objection & Anti-war Activism |
1856 - Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec
1926 - National World War I Museum, Kansas City, KS c1930 - Swarthmore Col Peace Collection, Swarthmore, PA 1932 - International Peace Garden, USA & Canada 1950 - United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY 1957 - Truman Pres Library & Museum, Independence, MO 1957 - DuSable Museum of African American Hist, Chicago 1962 - USS Arizona Mem Musuem, NPS, Pearl Harbor, HI 1963 - Woodrow Wilson House, Washington, DC 1964 - Marshall Museum & Research Library, Lexington, VA 1965 - Charles Wright Museum African Amer Hist, Detroit 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr Ctr Nonviolent Soc Change 1969 - Winston Churchill Memorial & Library, Fulton, MO Date? - Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Chicago, IL 1971 - Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL 1974 - Cherokee National Museum, Park Hill, Oklahoma 1974 - African American Museum, Dallas, Texas 1976 - Nat Museum of Amer Jewish History, Philadelphia 1976 - African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA 1976 - Ralph Bunche Peace & Heritage Ctr, South LA, CA 1977 - Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill, Val-Kill, NY 1977 - E Stanley Wright Museum of WW-II, Wolfeboro, NH 1980 - Martin Luther King Jr Nat Hist Site, Atlanta, GA 1980 - Doukhobor Village Museum, Verigin, Saskatchewan 1981 - National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, IL 1981 - California African American Museum, San Francisco 1982 - Carter Presidential Library & Museum, Atlanta, GA 1983 - Albert Einstein Institution, Cambridge, MA 1985 - Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles 1985 - Tubman African American Museum, Macon,GA 1986 - Swords Into Plowshares Peace Center, Detroit, MI 1987 - Lion & Lamb Peace Arts Center, Bluffton Univ., OH
1987 - Doukhobor Village Museum, Castlegar, Brit.Columbia 1988 - Peace Abbey Multi-Faith Retreat Ctr, Sherborn, MA 1990 - Ellis Island National Monument, NPS, New York, NY 1990 - EF Schumacher Society Library, South Egremont, MA 1991 - World Peace Sanctuary, WPP Society, Wassaic, NY 1991 - National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN 1992 - Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, AL 1992 - Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL 1993 - US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC 1993 - Museum of Tolerence, Simon Wiesenthal Ctr, LA, CA 1993 - Robert Gr. Ingersoll Birthplace Museum, Dresden, NY 1995 - National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA 1996 - National Women's History Museum, Alexandria, VA 1996 - Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX 1997 - Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY 1997 - Newseum (most interactive museum), Washington, DC 1999 - National Prisoner of War Museum, Andersonville, GA 1999 - Galeria Mus & Cultural Ctr, Mexican Her Pl, San Jose 1999 - Pier 21: Canada's Immigration Museum, Halifax, NS 2000 - Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, OK 2000 - Women's Museum-An Institute for the Future, Dallas 2000 - Rosa Parks Library & Museum, Montgomery, AL 2000 - Traces Center for History & Culture, St. Paul, MN 2001 - Holocaust & Intolerance Museum of NM, Albuquerque 2002 - Slavery & Civil War Museum, Selma, Alabama 2003 - Global Village & Discovery Center, Americus, GA 2004 - Clinton Pres Library & Museum, Little Rock, AR 2004 - Nat Mus of the Amer Indian, Smithsonian, Wash, DC
2004 - Nat Underground Railroad Freedom Ctr, Cincinnati 2005 - Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum, Springfield, IL 2005 - Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA 2005 - RF Lewis Mus of MD African Amer Hist, Baltimore 2005 - Arab American National Musuem, Dearborn, MI 2008 - Stories of Hope, Peace Resource Ctr, Wilmington, OH 2009 - Missing Peace Art Space, Dayton, Ohio
2010 - Public Ed Center, US Inst of Peace, Washington, DC 2012 - Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, MB 2015 - Nat Mus African American Hist/Culture, Washington Future - Center For Civil & Human Rights, Atlanta, GA Future - Intl Civil Rights Ctr & Museum, Greensboro, NC Future - US National Slavery Museum, Fredericksburg, VA Future - National Vietnam War Museum, Mineral Wells, TX Future - Pugwash Peace Exchange, Pugwash, NS, Canada |
 in Other Countries
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1975 - War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
1985 - Mem Hall of Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese... 1986 - International Museum of Peace & Solidarity, Samarkand
1987 - Mus War Chinese People's Resist Against Jap Aggres 1999 - No More Hiroshima-No More Nag-Peace Mus, India
2001 - Children's Museum for Peace & Human Rights, Karachi
2003 - Museo para la Paz, Fundación Arias, SanJuan,CostaRica 2003 - Center for Peace Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2004 - Jeju Peace Musuem, Jeju Island, South Korea 2004 - Kigali Memorial Centre, Kigali, Rwanda 2007 - Tehran Peace Museum, Tehran, Iran
2008 - Interfaith Peace Museum, I-LAP, Islamabad, Pakistan
2010 - Desmond Tutu Peace Centre, Cape Town, South Africa Future - UN Peace Museum, Kyung Hee Univ., Seoul, Korea
Future - Museum of National Peace, Amichi, Anambra, Nigeria |
1949 - Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, West Galilee, Israel
1953 - Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum, Jerusalem 1955 - Gandhi Memorial Museum, Tammukkam, Madurai 1961 - National Gandhi Museum & Library, New Delhi Date? - Ghandi Sangaralaya, Mani Bhavan, Mumbai, India Date? - Gandhi Mandapam, Kanniyakumari, Tamil Nadu 1963 - Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya, Ahmedabad, India 1969 - Aga Kahn Palace (Gandhi prison), Pune, India 1969? - Gandhi Darshan or Samadhi, Rajghat, New Delhi 1970 - Library Tibetan Works & Archives, Dharamsala, India 1973 - Gandhi Smriti, Birla House, New Delhi, India 1980 - Tuol Sleng Genocide Mus, Phnom Penh, Cambodia 1993 - Robben Island Museum, Robben Island, South Africa 1990s - Cape Coast Castle Museum, Cape Coast, Ghana Date? - House of Slaves Museum, Île de Gorée, Senegal 1995 - Armenian Genocide Museum & Inst Yerevan, Armenia 1995 - Documentation Center of Cambodia, Phnom Penh 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 2001 - Bethehem Peace Center, Bethelehem, Palestine 2002 - Green Island Human Rights Memorial Park, Taiwan 2006 - John Rabe Intl Safety Zone Mem Hall, Beijing, China 2007 - National 228 Memorial Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 2007 - Taipei Human Rights Culture Park, Jingmei, Taiwan 2007 - Cambodia Landmine Museum, Angkor, Cambodia 2008 - Sahajeevana Ctr for Coexistence, Columbo, Sri-Lanka Future - Memoria Abierta, Buenos Aires, Argentina Future - Museum of Tolerance, S Wiesenthal Ctr, Jerusalem |
"Peace Museums" | "Museums for Peace" | "Museums for Peace" | Percentage | |
| Europe | 22 | 36 | 58 | 27.6% |
| Japan | 14 | 13 | 27 | 12.9% |
| USA & Canada | 5 | 75 | 80 | 38.1% |
| Other Countries | 14 | 31 | 45 | 21.4% |
| World Total | 55 | 155 | 210 | 100.0% |
| Percentage | 26.2% | 73.8% | 100.0% |