The Informationsstelle für Friedensarbeit (Information Bureau for Peace Work) provides the public with information about the aims and methods of peacework. The bureau helps to create links between institutions working for peace, and it offers a collection of literature important for the policy of peace.
Fichtenweg 1
53340 Meckenheim
Germany
hp.mortier-infostelle@gmx.de
Tel : +49-2225-15995
The Humanity House tells you more than simply the story of emergency aid and international humanitarian law. Visitors hear, see and experience the true stories of victims of disasters and conflicts all over the world. Visiting the museum makes the unimaginable imaginable. You will experience what it must feel like to loose everything. When you have to leave your house in a hurry. Or finding your family and friends without an address or mobile phone. The Humanity House Experience takes you on a journey, where you will see, feel, hear and experience what it is like to survive a disaster, and be dependent on emergency aid.
The Humanity House is a meeting place for professionals and people interested in humanitarian aid and international humanitarian law. Disasters and conflicts influence the lives of millions of people in the world.
The Humanity House offers special educational programs for primary and secondary schools, and bachelor and master students. The Humanity House learns school children and students more about the effects of disasters and conflicts on the daily lives of people all over the world. Due to the realistic nature of the experience, the museum is suitable for children aged 10 and older. Children between the ages of 8 and 10 can only visit the exhibition accompanied by an adult.
The Humanity House current exhibitions are included in our exhibitions section.
Prinsegracht 8
2512 GA The Hague, The Netherlands
www.humanityhouse.org
info@humanityhouse.org
Tel : 070 31 000 50
The Henry-Dunant-Museum keeps the memory of Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross International alive. The museum is placed in the same house where Dunant lived more than 20 years, until he died in 1910. The permanent exhibition shows his whole life, as well as the influence of Dunant on the International Red Cross movement. Beside his political ideas and his commitment to humanity you can follow his last years in this region of Appenzell Ausserrhoden. The museum includes a multimedia room where visitors can enjoy watching videos of his life. Another interesting item on display in the museum is a replica of the Peace Bell from Nagasaki, Japan.
The Henry-Dunant-Museum current exhibition are included in our exhibitions section.
Asylstrasse 2
9410 Heiden, Switzerland
www.dunant-museum.ch
info@dunant-museum.ch
Tel : +41 71 891 44 04
The Halabja Monument commemorates one of the worst atrocities of the Sadam Hussein era, a gas attack in March 1988 resulting in 5000 deaths. The monument is maintained mostly by survivors and family of the victims, and is used to display documents, pictures and films.
The initiative for this monument came from President Jalal Talabani and it was supervised by Prime Minister Dr. Barham Salih of the Kurdistan Regional Government to see its opening on 15 September 2003.
The vision of the Halabja Monument is to eliminate weapons of mass destruction. Their mission is to work for peace, for the rehabilitation of the survivors and defending the rights of the families of the victims.
Yadgaree Street
964, Halabjah, Iraq
halabjamonument@yahoo.com
The mission of the Global Art Project for Peace is to joyously create a culture of peace through art. The project spreads world peace by promoting tolerance and nonviolence. It expresses the idea: We Are All One.
The Global Art Project for Peace is an international art exchange for peace. Here’s how it works: Participants create a work of art in any medium, expressing their vision of global peace and goodwill. The art is displayed locally in each participant’s community. Global Art Project then organizes an international exchange by matching participants group-to-group and individual-to-individual. The exchange occurs April 23-30 biennially, resulting in thousands of people sending messages of peace and goodwill around the world at one time – visions of unity simultaneously encircle the earth. Participants may send documentation of the art created and of the people who came together to create the art to the Global Art Project Art Bank. Global Art Project exhibitions, books, presentations and website give people an opportunity to experience visions of peace and unity created by individuals from diverse cultures around the world.
The Global Art Project for Peace travelling exhibition is included in our exhibitions section.
Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
www.globalartproject.org
peace@globalartproject.org
The Friedensmuseum Nuernberg (Peacemuseum Nuernberg) was established in 1995, with its main objective to support and promote the operation and preservation of a peace museum in Nuernberg. The Friedensmuseum strives to be a place for youth and adult peace education, which can be met in their methods of nonviolent action and conflict resolution.The peace museum in Nuernberg is a place for everybody interested in peace, specifically those with prejudices against peace movements. At the museum a documentary is shown about the 100 year history of pacifism and anti-militarism in Germany, with a special focus on the peace movement in Nuernberg since 1945, and the participation of women. Its aim is to encourage nonviolent responses from various media.
The Friedensmuseum Nuernberg current exhibitions are included in our exhibitions section.
In the spirit of Dag Hammerskjöld, the Fredens Hus (House of Peace) provides knowledge about peace issues with a broad perspective. The museum is a base for information and opinion-forming activities such as exhibitions and lectures for the general public, as well as broad educational programmes aimed at young people on issues of peace and conflict, human rights, racism, violence and sustainable development.
The Fredens Hus displays exhibitions on vulnerability, human rights and the Swedish peace activists Dag Hammarskjold, Folke Bernadotte and Raoul Wallenberg. They also conduct educational and recreational activities for young people, to work on issues related to prejudice, racism, discrimination and violence. The Swedish Inheritance Fund supports their project Breaking Stereotypes, in which the museum works hard to create new educational tools for low, intermediate, junior high and high school.
The Fredens Hus travelling exhibitions and current exhibitions are included in our exhibitions section.
Uppsala Slott, entrance A2
752 37 Uppsala
Sweden
www.fredenshus.se
info@fredenshus.se
The Erich Maria Remarque Peace Center, a cooperation of the city and university of Osnabrueck, is dedicated to the life and works of Erich Maria Remarque, Osnabrueck born author of All quiet on the Western Front. Activities focus on war and peace topics, especially on the representation of war and peace in the media.
The Erich Maria Remarque Peace Center travelling exhibitions and current exhibitions are included in our exhibitions section.
Markt 6
Osnabrück, Germany
www.remarque.uos.de
remarque-zentrum@uni-osnabrueck.de
Tel 0541/323-2109
The Peacelab-Museum Factory is an Italian association that studies and develops guidelines for a museology for peace. It was established to offer support and management to the Peacelab-Museum of Collegno, as a workshop-museum where visitors become active participants by studying documentation, partaking in discussions and trainings in peace initiatives. The Peacelab-Museum Factory works to promote peace policies and actions for nonviolent conflict resolution, disarmament and human rights on a local, national and international level.
Via Della Consolata 4
10093 Collegno, Turin, Italy
The Gernika Peace Museum is a theme museum setting out the culture of peace. It was inspired by the tragic bombing of Gernika on 26th April 1937 (Spanish Civil War). The museum has a specialised documentation centre and department of education (with workshops and summer camps). They organise conferences and they have their own Gernika Award for Peace and Reconciliation (in collaboration with the City Council, Gernika Gogoratuz Peace Research Center and the Culture House of Gernika).
The mission of the Gernika Peace Museum Foundation is to preserve, display, publicise, conduct research and educate visitors in the basic ideas of the culture of peace, and the past and present relation of this culture to the history of Gernika-Lumo, so that, together with other history and peace organisations, Gernika-Lumo, the province of Bizkaia and the Basque Country be used as local, regional, national and international references in the search for peace and culture.
The permanent exhibition of the museum operates around three major questions:
The Gernika Peace Museum travelling exhibitions and current exhibitions are included in our exhibitions section.
Foru Plaza 1
48300, Gernika-Lumo, Spain
www.museodelapaz.org
www.peacemuseumguernica.org
museoa@gernika-lumo.net