Museums for Peace Worldwide
Edited by Kazuyo Yamane, Ryotaro Katsura and Ikuro Anzai
Published by Anzai Science & Peace Office(ASAP) Kyoto, Japan April, 2017
Europe
Austria
International Esperanto Museum https://www.onb.ac.at/en/museums/esperanto-museum/das-esperantomuseum/ueber-das-esperantomuseum/
Franz Jaqerstatter House No website
European Museum for Peace http://www.museum.friedensburg.at/
Austrian Resistance Archive http://www.doew.at/
Belgium
The IJzer Tower http://www.museumaandeijzer.be/ijzertoren
“In Flanders Fields”Museum http://www.inflandersfields.be/
The Peace Center of the Province and the City of Antwerp http://www.antwerpen14-18.be/en
France
Caen Memorial http://normandy.memorial-caen.com/
The World Center for Peace, Freedom and Human Rights http://en.verdun-tourisme.com/world-peace-centre-school-groups.html
Albert Schweitzer House http://www.schweitzer.org/2012/en/gunsbach-english/museum-english
European Center on Resistance and Deportation: Site of the former Natzweiler camp http://www.struthof.fr/
Museum of National Resistance in Champigny-sur-Marne http://www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/en/museum-national-resistance-champigny-sur-marne
Resistance and Deportation History Centre http://www.chrd.lyon.fr/chrd/sections/fr/pied/english_1
Germany
Berlin Wall Memorial http://www.berliner-mauer-gedenkstaette.de/en/
Topography of Terror Documentation Center http://www.topographie.de/
Lindau Peace Rooms http://www.friedens-raeume.de/
Bridge at Remagen Peace Museum http://www.bruecke-remagen.de/
Anti-War Museum & Peace Library http://www.friedensbibliothek.de/friedensbibliothek.php
Anti-War Museum, Berlin http://www.anti-kriegs-museum.de/index.html
Peace Museum in Meeder http://www.frieden-feiern.de
Kathe Kollwitz Museum http://www.kaethe-kollwitz.de/en/
Wall Museum – Checkpoint Charlie http://www.mauermuseum.de/
Peace Museum, Numberg http://www.friedensmuseum.odn.de/
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site http://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de
Erich Maria Remarque-Peace Center http://www.remarque.uni-osnabrueck.de/
Gandhi Serve Foundation http://www.gandhiserve.org
German Resistance Memorial Center http://www.gdw-berlin.de/ged/geschichte-e.php
House of the Wannsee Conference Educational and Memorial Site http://www.ghwk.de/engl/kopfengl.htm
German Historical Museum https://www.dhm.de/en.html
Italy
Red Cross International Museum http://www.micr.it/
International Pacifist PeaceDocumentation Center http://www.cdmpi.it/home.html
Peacelab-Museum (Museo-labortorio di Pace) http://www.comune.collegno.gov.it/museo-laboratorio-di-pace.aspx
Netherlands
Peace Palace Library https://www.peacepalacelibrary.nl
Anne Frank House Amsterdam http://www.annefrank.org/en/
Museum for Peace and Nonviolence http://www.vredesmuseum.nl/info/contact.php
Yi Jun Peace Museum https://denhaag.com/en/location/478/yi-jun-peace-museum
Netherlands Institute for War Documentation https://www.kamparchieven.nl/en/participants-/netherlands-institute-for-war-documentation-niod
Comenius Museum http://www.comeniusmuseum.nl/
Overloon War Museum https://www.oorlogsmuseum.nl/nl/home/
Resistance Museum (Verzetsmuseum) http://www.verzetsmuseum-zh.nl/index.php
Resistance Museum in Gouda http://www.verzetsmuseum-zh.nl/
The Boom Museum https://www.corrietenboom.com/
Humanity House https://www.humanityhouse.org/en/
Norway
Norwegian Nobel Institute https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/
Nobel Peace Center http://www.nobelpeacecenter.org
Norway’s Resistance Museum http://www.forsvaretsmuseer.no/nor/Hjemmefrontmuseet
The Narvik War and Peace Center http://warmuseum.no/the-narvik-centre-of-war-and-peace/
Spain
Gernika Peace Museum http://www.museodelapaz.org/en/index_en.php
Peace Museum in La Vall d’Uixó (Closed, but it will be reopened.) Under construction
Sweden
Nobel Museum http://www.nobelmuseum.se/
National Museums of World Culture in Sweden http://www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/en/
Fredens Hus (Peace House) in Uppsala http://www.fredenshus.se/
Switzerland
The United Nations at Geneva Museum http://www.unog.ch/80256EE60057D930/(httpPages)/B77E924BEEE9DF6CC1257C85004A8F58?OpenDocument
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum http://www.redcrossmuseum.ch/en
Henry-Dunant Museum http://www.dunant-museum.ch/
U.K.
Imperial War Museum http://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-london
The Peace Museum, Bradford http://peacemuseum.org.uk/
Florence Nightingale Museum http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/?v=24d22e03afb2
Czech Republic
National Cultural Monument-Terezin Memorial http://www.pamatnik-terezin.cz/en?lang=en
National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrich Terror http://www.pamatnik-heydrichiady.cz/
Lidice Memorial http://www.lidice-memorial.cz/en/
The Cairn of Peace Memorial http://mohylamiru.muzeumbrnenska.cz/en/
World War ⅡMemorial http://www.szm.cz/en/category/221/exhibition-premises-of-the-silesian-museum/the-second-world-war-memorial-hrabyne.html
Lidice Memorial http://www.lezaky-memorial.cz/en/
Hungary
House of Terror http://www.terrorhaza.hu/
Denmark
Danish Resistance Museum http://en.natmus.dk/museums/the-museum-of-danish-resistance-1940-1945/
National Museum of Denmark http://en.natmus.dk/museums/the-national-museum-of-denmark/
The Occupation Museum in Arhus 1940-45 http://www.besaettelsesmuseet.dk/Engelsk.htm
Poland
The Central Museum of Prisoners of War http://www.cmjw.pl/en/
Galicia Jewish Museum http://www.galiciajewishmuseum.org
Memorial and Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau http://www.auschwitz.org
The State Museum at Majdanek http://www.majdanek.eu/pl#
Russia & Eurasia
Uzbekistan
International Museum of Peace and Solidarity http://www.friends-partners.org/ccsi/nisorgs/uzbek/peacemsm.htm
Lithuania
Sugihara House, Lithuania http://www.sugiharahouse.com/
Africa
Kenya
Community Peace Museums Heritage Foundation http://cpmhf.weebly.com & http://munuvemutisya.weebly.com/
Tanzania
Peace Memorial Museum No website
Namibia
Museum Association of Namibia http://www.museums.com.na/
Nigeria
African Centres for Peace Education and Training http://www.peace.ca/africa.htm
Rwanda
National Museum of Rwanda http://museum.gov.rw/index.php?id=2
Siorra Leone
Sierra Leone Peace Museum http://www.slpeacemuseum.org/
South Africa
Robben Island Museum http://www.robben-island.org.za/organisation
District Six Museum http://www.districtsix.co.za/
North America
U.S.A.
Amache Museum in Colorado http://www.amache.org/amache-museum/
Arizona Memorial http://www.pearlharborhistoricsites.org/pearl-harbor/arizona-memorial
Atomic Bomb Museum.org web site:A virtual peace museum http://atomicbombmuseum.org/
Children’s Peace Center in Georgia http://childrenspeacecenter.homestead.com/Index.html
Dallas Peace & Justice Center https://www.dpjc.org/
Dayton International Peace Museum https://www.daytonpeacemuseum.org/
Eastern California Museum http://www.inyocounty.us/ecmsite/
Facing History and Ourselves https://www.facinghistory.org/
Go For Broke National Education Center in Los Angeles http://www.goforbroke.org/
Great Basin Museum (near Topaz, Utah) http://greatbasinmuseum.com/
Heart Mountain Interpretive Center in Wyoming http://heartmountain.org/
Homesteader Museum (near Heart Mountain in Wyomong) http://homesteadermuseum.com/
Japanese American Museum of San Jose http://www.jamsj.org/
Japanese American National Museum http://www.janm.org/
Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii http://www.jcch.com/
Jerome cccCounty Historical Society (near Minidoka, Idaho) http://www.historicaljeromecounty.com/
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum https://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov
Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum http://www.kidsbridgemuseum.org
Manzanar National Historic Site https://www.nps.gov/manz/index.htm
Miami Children’s Museum https://www.miamichildrensmuseum.org/
Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles http://www.museumoftolerance.com/site/c.tmL6KfNVLtH/b.4865933/k.DFFE/Exhibits.htm
Museum of Tolerance in New York http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=glKWIaOWIjJ4H&b=9449921
National Civil Rights Museum http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/
National Japanese American Historical Society in San Francisco https://www.njahs.org/
National Museum of the Pacific War http://www.pacificwarmuseum.org/
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center http://www.freedomcenter.org/
Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center http://www.oregonnikkei.org/
Pasos:New York http://www.pasospeacemuseum.org/index.html
Sword Into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery http://www.swordsintoplowsharesdetroit.org/
The Killing Fields Museum of Cambodia http://www.killingfieldsmuseum.com/index.html
The King Center, Atlanta http://www.thekingcenter.org/
The Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center in Ohio http://www.bluffton.edu/lionlamb/about.html
The National Museum of African American History and Culture https://nmaahc.si.edu/
The National Peace Museum of Conscientious Objection and Anti-war Activism http://www.nationalpeacemuseum.org/index.html
The Peace and Justice Center in Vermont http://www.pjcvt.org/white-fragility-presentation-and-discussion/
The Peace Center in San Antonio, Texas http://www.sanantoniopeace.center/
The President Woodrow Wilson House http://www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org/
The Quaker Heritage Center in Wilmington, Ohia https://www.wilmington.edu/the-wilmington-difference/qhc/
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum https://www.ushmm.org/
Topaz Museum in Utah http://www.topazmuseum.org/
Tule Lake-Butte Valley Fair and Museum of Local History in California http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Tule%20Lake-Butte%20Valley%20Fair%20and%20Museum%20of%20Local%20History/
Wilmington College Peace Resource Center https://www.wilmington.edu/the-wilmington-difference/prc/
World War II Japanese American Internment Museum in Arkansas http://mcgeheechamber.com/museum-project-2/
Canada
Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace http://www.peace.ca
South America
Chile
Park for Peace http://villagrimaldi.cl/parque-por-la-paz/
Costa Rica
Museo de la Paz Under construction
East Asia
China
The Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders http://www.nj1937.org/index.html
History Museum on Chinese “Comfort Women” Under construction
The Chinese No.8 Troop Memorial Hall http://www.balujun.org
The Museum of the War of Chinese People’s Resistance Against Japanese Aggression http://www.1937china.com/enweb/
The Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Commiited by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army http://www.731museum.org.cn/index.html
9.18 Historical Museum http://www.918museum.org.cn/index.php/article/listarticle/pid/222/rel/tabs/sidebar/sidebar
John Rabe and International Safety Zone Memorial Hall http://www.nju.edu.cn/_upload/tpl/01/c2/450/template450/img/index.htm
Korea
Center for Peace Museum http://www.peacemuseum.or.kr
The House of Sharing http://www.nanum.org/
The Independence Hall of Korea http://global.i815.or.kr/en
The Jeju 4・3 Peace Park http://jejupark43.1941.co.kr/
May 18 National Cemetery Memorial http://518.mpva.go.kr/
Pusan Democracy Park http://www.demopark.or.kr/eng/main/sub_demopark.asp
Seodaemunmun Prison History Hall http://www.sscmc.or.kr/foreign/eng/introduction.html
The War Memorial of Korea https://www.warmemo.or.kr/newwm/eng/main.jsp
The Museum of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan http://www.heeummuseum.com/
The No Gun Ri Peace Memorial http://www.nogunri.net/
Japan
Anne Frank Memorial House http://annesrose.com/memorial/index.html
Aomori Exhibition Hall on Air Raids and War Damage https://www.city.aomori.aomori.jp/chuo-center/kodomo-kyouiku/shimin-center/kouminkan/06.html
Art Museum of Picture Books http://www.douwakan.co.jp/museum/
Auschwitz Peace Museum Japan http://www.am-j.or.jp/
Chiune Sugihara Memorial in Gifu http://sugihara-museum.jp/index_en.html
Chorokan (Morning Dew Museum) http://chorogan.org/
Chuhkiren Peace Memorial https://npo-chuukiren.jimdo.com/
Daigo Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon) Exhibition Hall http://www.d5f.org/
German Museum http://doitsukan.com/
Gifu Peace Museum http://gakuen.gifu-net.ed.jp/~contents/tyu_shyakai/jinbutu/sensou/siryousitu.htm
Grassroots House http://ha1.seikyou.ne.jp/home/Shigeo.Nishimori/
Hamamatsu Reconstruction Memorial http://www.fukkoukinenkan.com/access.html
Himeji Peace Museum http://www.city.himeji.lg.jp/guide/map/tegara/peace.html
Himeyuri Peace Museum http://www.himeyuri.or.jp/
Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall http://www.hiro-tsuitokinenkan.go.jp/
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/index_e2.html
Holocaust Education Center http://www.urban.ne.jp/home/hecjpn/indexENGLISH.html
Human Rights and Peace Museum Fukuyama City http://www.fukuyama-kanko.com/english/hyaka/cat_spot004.html
Japan Peace Museum Project http://www.peace-museum.org/welcome.htm
Kanagawa Plaza for Global Citizenship http://www.earthplaza.jp/
Kawasaki Peace Museum http://www.city.kawasaki.jp/shisetsu/category/21-21-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html
Kitakami Peace Memorial Hall No website
Kobe Museum on Disaster and War Damage http://www.city.kobe.lg.jp/safety/disaster/index.html
Kochi Liberty and Peoples’ Rights Museum http://www.i-minken.jp/
Korea Museum, Tokyo http://www.40net.jp/~kourai/
Kyoto Museum for World Peace Ritsumeikan University http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/mng/er/wp-museum/english/
Life is Treasure House http://wabiai.holy.jp/
Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels http://www.aya.or.jp/~marukimsn
Mirasaka Peace Museum of Art http://mirasakaheiwa.web.fc2.com/
Mugonkan Art Museum for Peace Under reconstruction
Nagaoka War Damages Center http://www.city.nagaoka.niigata.jp/kurashi/cate12/sensai/siryoukan.html
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum http://nagasakipeace.jp/english/abm.html
Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall http://www.peace-nagasaki.go.jp/
Nagasaki Peace Museum http://www.nagasakips.com/archives/category/subscription/english
Nakano Ward Peace Exhibition Hall http://www.city.tokyo-nakano.lg.jp/dept/101500/d022390.html
Nishinomiya City Peace Center http://www.nishi.or.jp/print/0002381500040009700607.html
No More Hibakusha Hall http://www.ekinavi-net.jp/hokkaido/ishikari/sights/no-more.html
Oka Masaharu Memorial Nagasaki Peace Museum http://www.d3.dion.ne.jp/~okakinen/
Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum http://www.peace-museum.pref.okinawa.jp/english/index.html
Okunoshima Poison Gas Museum http://www.city.takehara.lg.jp/machitukuri/dokugasusiryokan.html
Osaka Human Rights Museum http://www.liberty.or.jp/
Osaka International Peace Center(Peace Osaka) http://www.peace-osaka.or.jp/
Pacific War History Museum No website
Peace Aichi Under construction
Peace Memorial Center, Hokkaido http://www.minami-hokkaido.jp/spot/5/117
Peace Museum of Air-raids on Okayama http://www.city.okayama.jp/okayama-city-museum/sensai/sensai_index.html
Peace Museum of Saitama http://www.saitama-peacemuseum.jp/publics/index/29/
Sakai City Peace and Human Rights Museum http://www.city.sakai.lg.jp/shisei/jinken/jinken/heiwajinkenshiryokan/
Sakima Art Museum http://sakima.jp/
Sendai Memorial on Postwar Rehabilitation http://www.city.sendai.jp/aoba/sensai/index.html
Setagaya Peace Museum http://www.city.setagaya.lg.jp/kurashi/107/157/749/750/d00141171.html
Shimari Museum for Peace No website
Shizuoka Peace Center http://shizuoka-heiwa.world.coocan.jp/
Soka Gakkai Toda Peace Memorial Hall http://www.joseitoda.org/
Suita Peace Memorial Center http://www.city.suita.osaka.jp/home/soshiki/div-shimin/jinken/_70171.html
Taiji Ishigaki Memorial Hall http://www.town.taiji.wakayama.jp/ishigaki/
Takamatsu Peace Memorial http://www.takamatsu-webmuseum.jp/heiwa/howto/
Tanba Manganese Memorial Hall http://tanbamangan.sakura.ne.jp/
The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damages http://www.tokyo-sensai.net/
Tsuruga Museum http://www.tmo-tsuruga.com/kk-museum/
Tsushima-maru Memorial Museum http://tsushimamaru.or.jp/
Usui Peace Memorial Museum http://www.e-kama.net/area/碓井平和祈念館/
Wadatsumino Koe Memorial Hall Under reconstruction
War Memorial Maritime Museum http://www.jsu.or.jp/siryo/siryokan/guidepavilion.html
Women’s Active museum on War and Peace http://wam-peace.org/en/
Yamanashi Peace Museum http://ypm-japan.jp/
Yawaragi:Peace Memorial in Saiki http://www.city.saiki.oita.jp/shisetsu/yawaragi.html
Yukinoshita Peace Culture Museum No website info@yukinoshita.net
Taiwan
Professor Chen Wen-Chen Memorial Foundation http://www.cwcmf.net/
Preparatory Office of the National Human Rights Museum http://www.nhrm.gov.tw/information2?uid=100&pid=4
Taipei 2.28 Memorial Museum http://228memorialmuseum.gov.taipei/ct.asp?xItem=1874245&ctNode=38980&mp=11900A
East-South Asia
Singapore
The Chang Museum No website
Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall http://sysnmh.org.sg/en
Thailand
The JEATH War Museum No website
The Thailand-Burma Railway Center http://www.tbrconline.com/
Cambodia
Cambodia Land Mine Museum http://www.cambodialandminemuseum.org/
Choeung Ek Genocidal Center http://www.cekillingfield.org/index.php/en/
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum http://www.tuolslenggenocidemuseum.com/
Cambodia Peace Museum project http://www.centrepeaceconflictstudies.org/
Vietnam
Son My Vestige Museum No website
War Remnants Museum http://www.baotangchungtichchientranh.vn/
West Asia &Middle EastWest Asia &Middle East
Iran
Tehran Peace Museum http://www.tehranpeacemuseum.org/index.php/en/
Israel
Yad Vashem – The World Holocaust Remembrance Ceter http://www.yadvashem.org/
Palestine
Bethlehem Peace Center http://www.obethlehem.com/
Pakistan
Children’s Museum for Peace and Human Rights http://www.cmphr.org
The Interfaith Peace Museum http://www.ilappk.org/
South Asia
India
Gandhi Memorial Museum, Madurai http://www.gandhimmm.org/
Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya http://www.gandhimuseum.in/
Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti(GSDS) http://gandhismriti.nic.in/index.asp?langid=2
National Gandhi Museum and Library http://www.gandhimuseum.org/
No More Hiroshima: No More Nagasaki: Peace Museum http://www.iipdep.org/nomorehiroshima.htm
Bangladesh
Liberation War Museum http://www.liberationwarmuseumbd.org/
Sri Lanka
The Sahajeevana Centre, Center for Coexistence http://sahajeevanacenter.blogspot.kr/
Oceania
Australia
The National Museum of Australia http://www.nma.gov.au/index.html
