Gallery
photographs, video, and film
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Peace Museums of the World: Sakima Art Museum (Japan)(July 27, 2010)
Sakima Art Musuem was established in Ginowan City, Okinawa in 1994 as a "place of reflection." The museum was constructed on a piece of land that was returned from a portion of the U.S. Futenma Air Station. Since then, many people from various parts of Japan, as well as from such neighboring nations as South Korea and China, have visited the museum.
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The Devastation of Hiroshima: A Record in Photographs - The City(June 28, 2010)
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was transformed into a burnt wasteland by the blast and heat from the atomic bomb. Scores of people instantly lost their lives and survivors have borne the tremendous trauma of this experience on their bodies and in their minds.
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The Devastation of Hiroshima: A Record in Photographs - Human Beings(June 28, 2010)
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was transformed into a burnt wasteland by the blast and heat from the atomic bomb. Scores of people instantly lost their lives and survivors have borne the tremendous trauma of this experience on their bodies and in their minds.
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Peace Museums of the World: The Imperial War Museum (U.K.)(June 28, 2010)
The Imperial War Museum is a multi-branch national museum founded in 1917 to record the story of the Great War and the contributions made to it by the peoples of the Empire. The Museum and its governing body, the Board of Trustees, were formally established by Act of Parliament in 1920, when the Museum opened in the Crystal Palace. From 1924 to 1935 the Museum was housed in two small galleries adjoining the Imperial Institute. In 1936 it was reopened in the central portion of the former Bethlem Royal Hospital in Lambeth Road, Southwark where it remains.
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Peace Museums of the World: Yamanashi Peace Museum (Japan)(June 11, 2010)
The Yamanashi Peace Museum (Tanzan Ishibashi Memorial Museum) is a private museum that was founded by citizens as a result of their wish to establish a museum that would convey the records and memories of war. After ten years of conducting research and collecting data by the citizens' group "Network for War Ruins in Yamanashi Prefecture,' the forerunner of the museum, the Yamanashi Peace Museum was realized with the financial support of about 800 citizens. It opened in May 2007.
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Peace Museums of the World: The Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center (USA)(May 24, 2010)
The Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center was founded in 1987 as a resource and program center in collaboration with Bluffton University by Dr. Elizabeth "Libby" Hostetler to provide an environment for children and students to consider themes of peace and justice, cultural understanding and nonviolent responses to conflict.
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Peace Museums of the World: Museum for Peace & Nonviolence (The Netherlands)(May 14, 2010)
The Museum for Peace & Nonviolence began its history in 1995 as the Anti-War Museum, the result of ten local peace organizations in the Netherlands and Belgium joining together for a mobile museum project. In 1998, the name was changed to the Museum for Peace & Nonviolence.
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Peace Museums of the World: The Collegno Peacelab Museum (Italy)(May 3, 2010)
The Collegno Peacelab Museum is the first experiment in museums-for-peace building in Italy. It is the initial step of a much larger project of an International Museum of Nonviolent Resistance against Wars, Dictatorships, Mafias and Human Right Violations. Therefore it is housed in the same building of The Historic Resistance Museum, directly adjoining it.
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Peace Museums of the World: Museum of Peace and Human Rights(Japan)(April 7, 2010)
Sakai City Peace and Human Rights Museum was established in 1994 under the banner of the Declaration of the Protection of Human Rights and the Declaration for Peace and the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons with the mission of disseminating and handing down to future generations the horror of war, the preciousness of peace, and the importance of respecting human rights.
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Peace Museums of the World: The King Center (United States)(March 11, 2010)
Established in 1968 by Coretta Scott King, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., The King Center is the official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement of the legacy of Dr. King, leader of America's greatest nonviolent movement for justice, equality and peace. Dr. King took part in the American Civil Rights Movement in 1950s to 60s.
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Peace Museums of the World: Uppsala Peace Museum (Sweden)(Feb. 24, 2010)
The Peace Museum in Uppsala is Sweden's first peace museum. It opened its doors in December 2005 and has since welcomed tens of thousands of visitors. The museum prides itself on being a museum of peace. While many museums tend to focus more on war than on peace, the Peace Museum firmly believes in the importance of focusing on the concept of peace and how to achieve peace globally.
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Peace Museums of the World: The Thailand-Burma Railway Centre (Thailand)(Jan. 29, 2010)
The Thailand-Burma Railway Centre is an interactive museum, information and research facility dedicated to presenting the history of the Thailand-Burma Railway. The museum opened in 2003. It is dedicated to presenting the factual and unbiased history of construction of the railway by Allied prisoners of the Japanese and Asian laborers during World War II.
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Peace Museums of the World: Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University (Japan) (Jan. 5, 2010)
The Kyoto Museum for World Peace opened at Ritsumeikan University in May 1992 as "the world's first peace museum founded by a university." After World War II, Ritsumeikan University reflected on its wartime experience and committed itself to an educational philosophy of "peace and democracy," alongside its founding ideal of "freedom and innovation." The museum was established in hopes of becoming a place that nurtures peace makers through education and research, learning and enlightenment, and exploration and discovery.
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