Abstract
‘Peace museums’ are exhibitions – temporary or permanent, traveling or static, material or virtual – that educate the public about ‘peace’, what it means and how it can be achieved. They form a significant part of peace education generally, supplementing things like peace movements, speeches, peace research, collaborations, and courses within the classroom. Yet, the idea of a peace museum is not as well-known as, for instance, ‘war museums’, where a Google search serves up 26.3 million hits for the latter and only 1.3 million for the former. This article provides an overview of peace museums worldwide so as to reflect upon the variety of their origins and contents. After clarifying what is meant by ‘peace’ and ‘peace museum’, it examines its early precursors, and the types of such museums around today. It concludes with prospects for these museums in the new century, and issues that have plagued them over time.
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