# Peace museum

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A **peace museum** is a museum that documents historical peace initiatives. Many peace museums also provide advocacy programs for [nonviolent](/source/Non-violence) [conflict resolution](/source/Conflict_resolution).[1] This may include conflicts at the personal, regional or international level.

## Peace museums around the world

- [Bansei Tokkō Peace Museum](/source/Canadian_Peace_Museum), [Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan](/source/Kagoshima_Prefecture)
- [Canadian Peace Museum](/source/Canadian_Peace_Museum)
- [Children's Peace Pavilion](/source/Children's_Peace_Pavilion) – [Independence, Missouri](/source/Independence,_Missouri), United States
- [Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots](/source/Chiran_Peace_Museum_for_Kamikaze_Pilots), [Kagoshima, Japan](/source/Kagoshima_prefecture)
- [Fukuromachi Elementary School Peace Museum](/source/Fukuromachi_Elementary_School_Peace_Museum) - near the peace park, across the Motuyasu river
- [Himeyuri Peace Museum](/source/Himeyuri_Peace_Museum)
- [Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims](/source/Hiroshima_National_Peace_Memorial_Hall_for_the_Atomic_Bomb_Victims) – [Hiroshima](/source/Hiroshima), Japan; inside the peace park
- [Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum](/source/Hiroshima_Peace_Memorial_Museum) – [Hiroshima](/source/Hiroshima), Japan; inside the [Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park](/source/Hiroshima_Peace_Memorial_Park)
- [Honkawa Elementary School Peace Museum](/source/Honkawa_Elementary_School_Peace_Museum) – [Hiroshima](/source/Hiroshima), Japan; near the peace park, across the Honkawa river
- [IJzertoren](/source/IJzertoren) – [Diksmuide](/source/Diksmuide), [West Flanders](/source/West_Flanders), Belgium
- [The International Peace Museum](/source/The_International_Peace_Museum) – [Dayton, Ohio](/source/Dayton,_Ohio), United States
- [Kawasaki Peace Museum](/source/Kawasaki_Peace_Museum)
- [Kyoto Museum for World Peace](/source/Kyoto_Museum_for_World_Peace) – [Kyoto](/source/Kyoto), Japan
- [Mémorial de Caen](/source/M%C3%A9morial_de_Caen) – [Caen](/source/Caen), [Normandy](/source/Normandy), France
- [Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum](/source/Nagasaki_Atomic_Bomb_Museum) – [Nagasaki](/source/Nagasaki), Japan
- [Norwegian Nobel Institute](/source/Norwegian_Nobel_Institute) – [Oslo](/source/Oslo), Norway
- [Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum](/source/Okinawa_Prefectural_Peace_Memorial_Museum), Japan
- [Osaka International Peace Center](/source/Osaka_International_Peace_Center)
- [Peace Museum](/source/Peace_Museum,_Bradford) – [Bradford](/source/Bradford), [West Yorkshire](/source/West_Yorkshire), England, United Kingdom
- [Peace Museum of Saitama](/source/Peace_Museum_of_Saitama), Japan
- [Tehran Peace Museum](/source/Tehran_Peace_Museum)
- [The Peace Museum](/source/The_Peace_Museum) – [Chicago](/source/Chicago), [Illinois](/source/Illinois), United States (closed)
- [Yi Jun Peace Museum](/source/Yi_Tjoune) - [The Hague](/source/The_Hague), Netherlands
- [Yokaren Peace Memorial Museum](/source/Yokaren_Peace_Memorial_Museum), Japan

## See also

- [International Network of Museums for Peace](/source/International_Network_of_Museums_for_Peace)
- [Lists of museums](/source/Lists_of_museums)

## External links

- [Peace Museums](http://www.peacemuseums.org/)

## References

1. Duffy, Terence (1993). ["The Peace museum concept"](https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000094282). *Museum International*. **XLV,1**: 4-8. – via UNESCO.

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