Welcome to The Peace Museum website
The Peace Museum explores the events and history of people and organisations that have worked to promote peace, non-violence and conflict resolution. It is the only museum in the UK dedicated to the collection, conservation, and interpretation of material relating to the history and development of peace, nonviolence and conflict resolution. Through exhibitions and learning [...]
Peace Museum receives painting from renowned artist Salima Hashmi
The Peace Museum is delighted to announce that it has been gifted a painting from one of Pakistan’s most renowned artists, Salima Hashmi. The donated work, Rain 1, is part of a series of works that Salima produced in the aftermath of the 2005 earthquake that had a devastating effect on Kashmir – primarily in [...]
We’re connected
You can now find The Peace Museum on the social networking websites Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Through these sites you can keep up to date about upcoming events and exhibitions and share news, information, updates, ideas, developments and special announcements. We also encourage you to check out our blog, which we will be using with [...]
Learning, education and outreach at The Peace Museum
Did you know that the Peace Museum offers learning packages for schools and community groups and can offer training and continuing professional development for teachers and other professionals? The Peace Museum’s Education Officer is available to work with children and young people in schools and educational settings, at The Peace Museum
Art needed from Bradford pupils
Have you heard about the new initiative in Bradford? Culture Fusion is a new state of the art building in the centre of Bradford that will welcome groups of children, young people and adults from all over the District, around the country and across the world. The initiative is led by the YMCA, but Culture [...]
New exhibition: Playing for Peace
Playing for Peace, an exhibition celebrating the role of sport in bringing together international communities, was launched in Coventry Cathedral on 4 October 2011. David Moorcroft, former 5000m world record holder and 2012 Ambassador for Coventry, opened the exhibition along with Nick Chavasse from Coventry Cathedral.
The Peace Museum partners with Schools Linking Network
The Peace Museum has formed a new partnership with the Schools Linking Network (SLN), a national charity which supports schools and other organisations across England to explore identity, diversity, equality and community, using four key questions:
The Peace Museum at Culture Fusion
The Peace Museum is running many of its education, learning and outreach programmes from a new state-of-the-art youth centre in Bradford called Culture Fusion.
Museum Refurbishment
The Museum will be closed for refurbishment from Wednesday 30th November. Staff will still be available for any queries you may have. Please see our Contact page. We will be re-opening in the New Year.
The Peace Museum is going for Gold
The Peace Museum’s project has become part of the Bradford Gold Programme. Bradford Gold has been set up in order to give all the extensive Olympic Activity across the District a common theme and brand.
Official Re-opening
We will be holding our official re-opening on 7th March from 5pm – 6.30pm. We would love to see you there, but if you can’t make it our new opening hours (as of 8th March) will be as follows: Thursdays 10am-4pm Fridays 10am-4pm The second Saturday of every month 10am-3pm
Object of the Week
Friday 27th January is Holocaust Memorial Day. Holocaust Memorial Day provides an opportunity to learn from the Holocaust, Nazi persecution and subsequent genocides to help create a safer, better future. On HMD we share the memory of the millions who have been murdered in the Holocaust and subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur [...]
Winter Newsletter
Our Winter Newsletter is available now. Please Click Here to view. If you would like to sign up to recieve the newsletter via email please fill out the form on the right of this page.
The Cosmos for Peaceful Use poster
Item type: Poster Date: 1980s Description: The poster has a blue background with white stars and yellow stars which are connected to create a shape which appears to be a dove. The poster was produced in the USSR in the 1980s and the writing on it reads “The Cosmos For Peaceful Use”.
Resolute Approach poster
Item type: Poster Date: 1983 Description: The poster is entitled ‘Resolute Approach’. It shows a calendar of January 1st with some suggestions for peaceful resolutions.
Raymond Briggs Christmas Card
Item type: Greetings card Date: 1982 Description: A Christmas card by Raymond Briggs, which features a cartoon of Father Christmas being mistaken for a nuclear missile attack. It was produced by European Nuclear Disarmament and was donated to the museum in 1999.
What's in our collection?
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badges
bags
Banners
baskets
Booklets
conscientious objectors
drawings
Greetings card
jewellery
kites
leaflets
Letters
Lithographs
newspapers
Oral history
paintings
photographs
Plates
Postcards
posters
T-shirts
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Gallery
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