My Peace Palace Collection started in 2005, when Vincent Stittelaar scoured flea markets, antique shops and the internet for any item connected to the Peace Palace in The Hague. The collection currently holds more than 1000 objects, varying from kitchen ware and textile to various books, boxes and all kinds of souvenirs. Stittelaar is still collecting new memorabilia and wants to participate in and organise exhibitions.

On the Peace Palace Centenary (28 August 2013) the website was launched as a virtual Peace Palace Museum. The aim is to share this collection of Peace Palace memorabilia, including knowledge about both Hague peace conferences, with anyone who is interested, and eventually to build a Hague peace museum that would educate about The Hague’s historical judicial roots as International City of Peace and Justice.

www.mypeacepalacecollection.com
info@mypeacepalacecollection.com

The Museum voor Vrede en Geweldloosheid (Museum for Peace and Nonviolence) is a virtual museum on the internet. Their address in Delft houses a small museum, open on appointment only. Since 1 July 2013, the museum also operates a permanent exhibition space inside the Resistance Museum South-Holland.

They promote a culture with less violence, through the use of travelling exhibitions in libraries, schools, major houses and museums. Their museum shop among other things sells games that promote cooperation instead of competition.

The museum works with volunteers and has 500 supporters. Twice a year they publish a newsletter entitled De Vredesboot (The Peaceboat).

The Museum voor Vrede en Geweldloosheid travelling exhibitions and current exhibitions are included in our exhibitions section.

Vlamingstraat 82
2611 LA Delft, The Netherlands
www.vredesmuseum.nl
info@vredesmuseum.nl

Tel : 015-785.01.37

Resistance Museum

Turfmarkt 30
2801 HA Gouda, The Netherlands
www.verzetsmuseum-zh.nl

The Museum Peace, Security and Defense Research in the Republic of Macedonia has two departments: the Department for Military History and the Department for Peacekeeping Operations. The latter collects, researches and exhibits historical items and documents related to the country’s peace processes and the Army of the Republic of Macedonia’s peacekeeping operations abroad under UN, NATO and EU command.

The museum was opened in 2006 as Military Museum in the military barracks ‘Goce Delcev’ by decision of the Ministry of Culture in Skopje. In 2008, the government of the Republic of Macedonia decided to reform and restructure this Military Museum and moved the organization in the building of the National Museum of Macedonia. On 7 December 2012, the museum was officially renamed to Museum of Peace, Security and Defense Research. The museums have an UNESCO certificate and work together with Skopje’s archeological, ethnological and historical museums, such as the Museum of Holocaust and the Memorial Museum of Mother Teresa. Macedonia is the homeland of 1979 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Mother Theresa.

Kurciska bb
1000 Skopje, Macedonia

In the area of a former insane asylum in Collegno in Piazza Cavalieri della Santissima Annunziata 7 was inaugurated on 20 September 2008, the Museo-laboratorio di Pace, the first and only of its kind in Italy. It is a museum evolving in a dynamic process open to contributions from everyone.
In fact, through the study of a science museum that involves the audience with new communication technologies, the Museum – laboratory Peace Collegno is a kind of “workshop”, in which the visitor is not a spectator but an active player.

Website

The purpose of the Mugonkan art museum is to contribute to promoting peace education through introducing paintings by students who majored in art, but were sent to battlefields to be killed during World War II. The museum distinguishes itself by collecting, preserving and exhibiting such paintings, as well as researching them and making them known to the public.

3462 Koaso, Ueda city
386-1213 Nagano, Japan

The Luthuli Museum was officially opened on 21 August 2004. It is located in the original 1927 home (currently a national monument) of first African Nobel Peace Prize laureate Chief Albert Luthuli.

The vision of the Luthuli Museum is to €œ”Let the Spirit of Luthuli Speak to All”.
The mission of the Luthuli Museum is to conserve, uphold, promote and propagate the life, values, philosophies and legacy of the late Chief Albert Luthuli in the struggle against Apartheid oppression and respect for human rights as well as life devotion to non-violent resolutions to world problems.

3233 Nokukhanya Luthuli Street
Groutville, KwaDukuza, 4450
South Africa
www.luthulimuseum.org.za
luthulimuseum@luthulimuseum.org.za

Tel : (032) 559-6822

Koen Vlerick is an autodidactic painter, poet and artist.

With his drawings, paintings, poetry, collages and constructions he testifies to love for life, nature, earth, peace and freedom in an unpretentious way. But his work is also an expression of aversion for the ugly and horrible things in life. He takes a stand against war, poverty, discrimination, environmental destruction, and injustice. It is his private way of expression, his means of communication, to laugh and cry.

www.koenvlerick.exto.nl
koen.vlerick@telenet.be

The John Rabe International Safety Zone Memorial Hall and Research and Exchange Center for Peace and Reconciliation is established to commemorate Mr. Rabe and the members of the International Committee for their deep love of humanity. The Memorial Hall intends to refresh people’s memories of and learn lessons paid with blood from this agonizing period of Chinese history, so that tragedies of this kind will never recur. They promote world peace and humanitarianism everywhere, and want to further develop friendly communications and cooperations among people of China and all other countries of the world.

Xiaofenqiao No. 1
210029 Nanjing, China

http://rabe.nju.edu.cn/

yangsy@nju.edu.cn

Tel : 025-83686306

The Jeugd OntmoetingsCentrum Ysselsteyn (Youth Meeting Center Ysselsteyn) is an educative group accomodation and education centre for schools, exchange projects, foundations, etc. Topics include history, cemetery, peace education, social skills, politics and art. The YMC Ysselsteyn is part of the youth department of the German War Grave Service and lies next to the 17 hectare German war cemetery, in which 32.000 graves let you experience what evil war can do.

The aim of the YMC Ysselsteyn is to have youth meet the past and work together on peace projects. Participants learn that:
Peace doesn’t need to mean a war free environment;
Everybody needs to know himself before understanding others;
A norm or value can be different from each other;
Cultures can be normal for one and for the other very strange;
Education can be fun.

Timmermannsweg 75
5813 AM Ysselsteyn, The Netherlands
www.joc-ysselsteyn.com
info@joc-ysselsteyn.com

Phone: 0031 – 478 – 54 19 16

The International Peace Bureau is dedicated to the vision of a World Without War. Their current main programme centres on Sustainable Disarmament for Sustainable Development and campaigns mainly on the reduction of military expenditure. The IPB believes that by reducing funding for the military sector, significant amounts of money could be made available for social projects domestically or abroad, and lead to the fulfilling of real human and environmental needs. Their core programme is the Global Day of Action on Military Spending. At the same time, they give support to a range of disarmament campaigns, from nuclear weapons to small arms.

The IPB plays a central role in the Geneva-based Special NGO Committee for Disarmament, which is a sub-committee of CONGO, the Conference of NGO in Consultative Status with ECOSOC. They have a long track record on a wide range of peace issues, with a special interest in peace education and peace history.

The IPB is a Nobel Peace Laureate (1910), and over the years, 13 of its officers have been recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.

41 Rue de Zurich
1201 Geneva
Switzerland
www.ipb.org
info@ipb-office.berlin

Tel : +41 22 731 64 29