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A peace museum is a museum that documents historical peace initiatives. Many peace museums also provide advocacy programs for nonviolent conflict resolution. 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
External links
References
- Duffy, Terence (1993). "The Peace museum concept". Museum International. XLV, 1: 4–8 – via UNESCO.