Easter Children’s Activities

We hope everyone is staying safe and has an enjoyable Easter weekend. Our education team has made some easy Easter themed activities for kids. You can download them below by clicking the links in the titles.

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Our exhibitions

View our current digital and in-person exhibitions.
Peace Out LGBTQ+ Spoken Word Night

The Peace Museum held a free evening of poetry at Bradford's Bread + Roses from 6pm to 8pm on Thursday 30th September. This event was part of our Peace OUT project.
The Peace Museum has been shortlisted at the Museums Change Lives Awards 2021

The museum has been shortlisted for The Best Small Museum Project Award at the Museum Association’s Museums Change Lives Awards 2021 for our Peace OUT project.
Badge of Protest drop-in Workshops with Layla Khoo

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Greenham Common Peace camp. The Peace Museum is working with artist Layla Khoo and would like to invite members of the public to come and make their own protest badges.

Peace Out LGBTQ+ Spoken Word Night

The Peace Museum held a free evening of poetry at Bradford's Bread + Roses from 6pm to 8pm on Thursday 30th September. This event was part of our Peace OUT project.
Peace OUT- Show and Tell Event

As part of Peace OUT our project exploring LGBTQ+ activism and peace, we’re held an online Show + Tell event to celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month in Bradford- February 2021
Objects on Loan

Did you know our collection goes on loan to other museums?
The Peace Museum Creative Challenge #PMCreativeChallenge

We teamed up with Bradford artist and facilitator Nancy Haslam-Chance and each week during lock down we shared a #StayHome activity based on objects from our collection with #PMCreativeChallenge.
Travelling Exhibitions

The Peace Museum has seven travelling exhibitions that are available for loan by an organisation/individual for the purposes of a short-term display. We do not charge for this service; however the borrower must cover postage and packaging costs. In addition, as the Museum is a charity, a donation which would cover staff time in arranging the loan would be most welcomed.
Children’s Activities
Pride Children’s Activities
War and Peace: Researching how sensitive issues are approached in museum learning

A joint research project with Royal Armouries, supported by GEM.
A Women’s March Through Time – IWD 2020

We have partnered with Remembering Resistance to create A Woman’s March Through Time – a chronicle of the story of women’s resistance through virtual reality.
The Eye as Witness: Recording the Holocaust

2020 Exhibition: The Eye as Witness: Recording the Holocaust, from National Holocaust Centre and Museum and University of Nottingham, examines the photographs taken during the Holocaust and asks the question; through who’s eyes are we seeing the past?

Black Lives Matter

For many, the urgency of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and the need for immediate change to protect black lives has meant a willingness to go out and protest, despite the lockdown measures.
The Rainbow: Peace, Equality and the NHS

In this section we explore the use of the rainbow as a peace symbol, an LGBTQ+ pride flag and the implications of it's use during the coronavirus pandemic.
Jobs
About us

The Peace Museum explores the history and the often untold stories of peace, peacemakers, social reform and peace movements. It occupies three small galleries in one of Bradford’s many fine Victorian buildings. It is unique in that it is the only accredited museum of its kind in the UK.
Chernobyl - A Nuclear Disaster

The events of 26th April 1986 have had a renewed interest since the release of HBO’s television series, examining the aftermath of the nuclear disaster. Millions across the world have watched the series. Tourism has increased to the region. Has Chernobyl renewed the debate around nuclear power? Emilia Bazydlo examines the event and how it influences our lives today.
International Day of Peace Special Blog

For International Day of Peace 2015 read this special blog all about the event.
School Programme
Special Blog – Treaty of Versailles Clause 246: The Tale of a Tanzanian Skull

This 2019 Special Blog –looks at the Treaty of Versailles Clause 246: The Tale of a Tanzanian Skull.
Our Collection

Find out about our collection.
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The museum is currently located in Piece Hall Yard, Bradford , West Yorkshire, UK, but the museum is closed as we search for a new home...