MUSEUMS AROUND THE WORLD
http://www.museumsforpeace.org/organizations_Museums_for_Peace.htm
1. Remembrance of War/Injustice toward a Country/Religious Group
CB: History of 20th Century:
a. Universite de la paix (all the paintings are of war)
. World Center for Peace, Freedom and Human Rights located in Verdun, one of major battlefields of WWI http://www.art-ww1.com/fr/cmp/ Les Classes de Paix Internationales : Il s’agit d’amener deux ou plusieurs groupes a priori séparés, en raison d’une guerre ou d’une situation troublée par des violences civiles, à se rencontrer pour essayer de parler, de mieux se connaître et surtout de mieux se comprendre
b. Yad Vashem, Israel (see below also k) http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/
c. Hiroshima Peace Memorial http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/top_e.html
d. Gogoratuz, Spain Peace Museum of Gernika http://www.gernikagogoratuz.org/englishgernikagogoratuz.html.
e. Caen Memorial for Peace is in Normandy, not far away from the Landing Beaches and the town of Caen was 80 per cent destroyed by Allies bombings in 1944.
http://www.memorial-caen.fr/portail/accueil/index.asp.
f. Nagasaki Peace Museum, Japan http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/na-bomb/museum/museum01.html.
g. Flanders Fields Museum, in Leper, is also nearby big battlefields of WWI, where lethal gas were for the first time used. http://inflandersfields.be An inter-active website but I was afraid to look too much – don’t like scenes of war and casualties.
h. Imperial War Museum, Britain, records conflicts in which the country has been involved. http://www.dunant-museum.ch/
Christophe Bouillet: Museums devoted to the Most Awful Result of WWII
j. U.S. Holocaust Museum, Wash. D.C.
k. Yad Vashem
l. Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles
m. Jewish Museum of Berlin http://www.jmberlin.de/
n. (Terrance Duffy) Dachu, Germany (former concentration camp (interpretative centre)
o. (Terrance Duffy) Auschwitz, Poland (former concentration camp (interpretative centre)
p. The new museum on Holocaust, Paris http://www.memorialdelashoah.org.
Personal Note: I do not visit museums featuring torture and concentration camps. The pictures haunt me forever. I understand how terrible it is to do this to people, but I cannot look with any objectivity. It hurts my soul.
r. Mauer Museum at Checkpoint Charlie. Could not get beyond index page. History of the Berlin Wall. http://mauer-museum.com/index-english.html
s. Bruecke Bridge: Founded in 1980. Museum organizes meetings between German and American veterans. History of the bridge. http://www.bruecke-remagen.de/index_en.htm
http://www.mkgandhi.org/gandhiyatra/sabarmati.htm.
http://www.thekingcenter.com/ http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org founded 1994.
a. International Red Cross Museum, Geneva http://www.micr.ch/
b. Henry Dunant Museum, Heidan http://www.dunant-museum.ch/
c. Florence Nightingale Museum, London
http://www.unog.ch/80256EE60057D930(httpPages)/6F57C423CC2B62280256EF8005048BA?OpenDocument
a. Caen Memorial for Peace http://www.memorial-caen.fr/portail/accueil/index.asp.
Personal Note: I enjoyed the book about Bonhoeffer written by Denise Giardino “Saints and Sinners” quite a while ago. I helped with her campaign for Governor of West Virginia. I also wondered if my former physician, H. Margret Zassenhaus, who wrote the book “Walls” and was nominated for a Nobel Prize. The thing I remember most about her book was that in Germany in WWII, soldiers were sent to parts of Germany where they didn’t know anyone –it was easier to hurt people you didn’t know. http://www.priub.org/afb_info/1998_1/inf98101.htm and
http://www.aspr.ac.at/museum/museum.htm
b. Anti-War Museum founded by Ernst Friedrick, 1925, destroyed by Nazis in 1933, reopened 1982. http://www.ani-kries-museum.de/english/start1.html
c. Kyoto Museum (related to Ritsumeikan University)
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/mng/er/wp-museum/e/eng.html
Peace and human dignity is a common aim for all peoples. Ritsumeikan University has long professed the ideals of peace and democracy as its guiding principle. The University's long-standing anti-war spirit is symbolized by the "Wadatsumi" statue, a statue dedicated to the students felled in battle whose scholastic career had been cut short by the Government Mobilization Order on 1943. Based on this antiwar tradition, the Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University, was built with the hope of contributing to the realization of world peace. Our main objective is to convey the tragic realities of war ; to illustrate the efforts of those who oppose war, and to provide an understanding of the importance of establishing peace.
d. Osaka Int’l Peace Center
This center shares the lessons of
the tragedy of war and preciousness of peace with
younger generations, displaying bombshells and firebombs.
http://mic.e-osaka.ne.jp/peace/index.html
q. Peace Education & Interactive
c. The European Peace Museum, also houses European Peace University Austria, Vienna. Scientific director: Dietrich Fischer, co-director of Transcend. Friedensmuseum Nurnberg (history also) * Would like more information on this Museum http://www.priub.org/afb_info/1998_1/inf98101.htm and http://www.aspr.ac.at/museum/museum.htm
d. Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress, San Jose, Costa Rica (a proposal) http://www.arias.or.cr/fundarias/cpr/museo-i.htm
e. The Prairie Peace Park, Lincoln Nebraska, USA http://www.peacepark.us/
f. The Samarkand-based International Museum of Peace and Solidarity Uzbekistan http://www.civilsoc.org//nisorgs/uzbek/poeacemsm.htm
g. African Peace Museum, Kenya (could not locate on internet) global search for peace http://www.un.org/Dialogue/dialogue2.ram Kenyan ethnographer Sultan Sornjee runs the ethnography dept. at Nat’l Museum of Kenya in Nairobi. Is an Ismaeli Muslim. He is an authority on the culture and peace traditions of Kenya’s pastorale peoples. His work for cultures do not build monuments, they do not write, but they keep alive their knowledge through oral and visual traditions. There are also local Peace Sites that are acknowledged by the whole community. The link was just an
item on another website which duplicated the above information.
h. Kyoto Museum (related to Ritsumeikan University) also Anti War. http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/mng/er/wp-museum/e/eng.html
Personal Note: Just finished reading “The Gardens of Kyoto” I would love to see the gardens there – especially the window which you can’t see through.
g. International Peace Museum, Cincinnati Ohio http://www.ih.k12.oh.us/ps/peace/
The International Peace Museum was started by the students in the second grade at Indian Hill Primary School in Cincinnati, Ohio. In was created in conjunction with their unit of study about Martin Luther King, Jr. Each student drew a picture and wrote a few words about what peace meant to them. The pictures and words were exhibited in a "virtual museum."
The museum was posted to several educational listservs and k-3 students from other schools were asked to create peace exhibits for the museum, one per classroom. The museum now has exhibits from 14 schools in the United States as well as two from Canada, one from Bermuda, one from Germany, and one from Brazil.
· How can my school participate?
We would like to have many more schools of k-3 children participate. It is easy to do. All you need to do is email the curator of the museum, Marian Herman, at hermanm@ih.k12.oh.us and tell her you wish to participate. She will then return your email and tell you how to submit your exhibits. You can submit them either through email or snail mail.
h, Universite de la paix (all the paintings are of war)
. World Center for Peace, Freedom and Human Rights located in Verdun, one of major battlefields of WWI http://www.art-ww1.com/fr/cmp/ Les Classes h. de Paix Internationales : Il s’agit d’amener deux ou plusieurs groupes a priori séparés, en raison d’une guerre ou d’une situation troublée par des violences civiles, à se rencontrer pour essayer de parler, de mieux se connaître et surtout de mieux se comprendre In Two catagories.
This center shares the lessons of
the tragedy of war and preciousness of peace with
younger generations, displaying bombshells and firebombs.
http://mic.e-osaka.ne.jp/peace/index.html
Scientific/Intellectual/Pedantic: article at 4th Peace Museum Conf: Europaisches Museum fur Frieden: Vision—Konzeption—Realisation. Ein friedenswissenschaftliches Expos byWolfgang R. Vogt in Friedensforum Not really a museum but interesting in its approach.
r. Educational (courses, leaflets, books, library)
c. The Chicago Peace Museum (also exhibitions chronicling local, national and international efforts to attain peace. http://www.peacemuseum.org/
d. The First Austrian Peace Museum founded 1993 http://www.ooevbw.org/Friedensmuseum/index-e.htm
e. Universite de la Paix (although web site seemed quite focused on results of war (paintings of battles featured).
Dayton Peace Museum, Dayton Ohio: all volunteer Museum featuring education. http://www.daytonpeacemuseum.org/