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

Bansei Tokkō Peace Museum, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan Canadian Peace Museum Children's Peace Pavilion – Independence, Missouri, United States Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots, Kagoshima, Japan Fukuromachi Elementary School Peace Museum - near the peace park, across the Motuyasu river Himeyuri Peace Museum 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 Kawasaki Peace Museum Kyoto Museum for World Peace – Kyoto, Japan Mémorial de Caen – Caen, Normandy, France Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum – Nagasaki, Japan Norwegian Nobel Institute – Oslo, Norway Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum, Japan Osaka International Peace Center Peace Museum – Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Peace Museum of Saitama, Japan Tehran Peace Museum The Peace Museum – Chicago, Illinois, United States (closed) World Peace Museum (a travelling exhibition) Yi Jun Peace Museum - The Hague, Netherlands Yokaren Peace Memorial Museum, Japan

See also

International Network of Museums for Peace Lists of museums

External links Peace Museums

References