The Centro Documentazione Manifesto Pacifista Internazionale – CDMPI  (International Peace Poster Documentation Centre) appeals the importance of peace through pacifist posters. The collection represents ideas and activities of the various pacifist movements, such as: nonviolent popular defense, peace and economy, disarmament and hunger, and peace education. The collection presents only a very small fraction of the posters that have ever been printed, but is valued as a way to preserve historical memory.

The collection, housed in the Casa per la Pace ‘La Filanda’  in Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna) since 2006, is considered the biggest posters collection worldwide and includes posters from Italian and international pacifist movements as well as pacifist posters about Gulf wars, ecology-peace-environment, the Third World, human rights, international cooperation and handwritten posters.

In the year 2006, CDMPI donated the collection to the municipality of Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna) to manage it.

The museum also includes a library with some 1000 books and reviews on peace and nonviolence, an archive with documents on peace initiatives, peace movements and peace personalities, and a video library. Their activities include collecting, preserving and promoting the pacifist posters, organising thematic exhibitions, the publication of exhibition catalogues and photographic reproduction of the posters.

Casa per la Pace “La Filanda”
Via Canonici Renani 8
Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna, Italy

Tel : 051-6198744

Vittorio Pallotti Tel. 051-584513
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