The Anti-Kriegs-Museum (Anti-War Museum) is a place where documents about war events and peace work are collected, evaluated and exhibited. Members of the Anti-Kriegs-Museum spread pacifism by peace education, especially by work with youth groups and school classes, readings, cinema shows, etc. The museum works together with other pacifist groups worldwide.

The pacifist and anti-fascist Ernst Friedrich founded the first Anti-War Museum in 1925. He had collected war material and photos of WW1 and exhibited them to show the horrors of war. In 1933 Nazi storm troopers destroyed the museum and turned it into one of their locations. Ernst Friedrich opened the second Anti-War Museum in Brussel (Belgium) in 1936, but this was destroyed by German troops in 1940. The third and current Anti-War Museum was set up by a group of teachers headed by Tommy Spree, grandson of Ernst Friedrich, in 1982.

The Anti-War Museum shows mainly historical material, some original pieces from Ernst Friedrich’s first museum, donated and lent pieces from WW1 and WW2 and a fully equipped air-raid shelter. Current exhibitions of atomic and chemical warfare and mine fields are also presented.

The Anti-Kriegs-Museum current exhibitions are included in our exhibitions section.

Address

Brusseler Strasse 21
13353, Berlin, Germany
www.anti-kriegs-museum.de
anti-kriegs-museum@gmx.de

Opening hours

Monday – Sunday 16.00 – 20.00h

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The Peace Museum is the only museum dedicated to the history and (often untold) stories of peace, peacemakers and peace movements in the UK. The Peace Museum is an INMP member of the first hour. Established in 1994, it oved to its present site in the city center of Bradford in 1998.

They aim to engage, inform and inspire through:

• items in the collection and exhibitions
• learning and education activities for all sectors of the community, schools, colleges and universities
• focusing on local, national and international people, events and stories
• posing questions about equality, diversity, cohesion, peace and non-violence
• telling untold stories of peacemakers and peace-making

The museum asks visitors to consider peace and peace-making as an active, as opposed to passive, endeavour, a challenge and something that requires effort, asking “What could you do?”, What story will you tell?”

10 Piece Hall Yard
Bradford BD1 1PJ, England
www.peacemuseum.org.uk
info@peacemuseum.org.uk

Tel 01247780241

Entrance is free

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