A successful open day Thank you to all those who were able to attend our open day at Salts Mill, Saltaire, our new home on Saturday 25th November. On the day we asked visitors to fill in a questionnaire to let us know their thoughts and share with us what they want to see from […]

The Peace Museum’s Chair of Trustees, Dr Clive Barrett, gave the Olof Palme Memorial Peace Lecture at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds on October 25th. The lecture, Our objects are peace, a culture of peace is our object.  How the peace museum holds the past and releases the future lasts for an hour with […]

Do you want to make a difference? Are you interested in helping to promote a peaceful future, by sharing stories of Peace from the past and present? The Peace Museum is seeking new trustees to join the Board of Directors during an exciting time of transition as we move to our new home. Alongside general […]

The Peace Museum has been awarded a Bradford 2025 City of Culture large scale capital grant. The grant will enable us to carry out the building works required to open the new Peace Museum in Salts Mill in summer 2024. These works are part of the IMAGINE: Creating The Peace Museum of theFuture project. Also […]

This year’s Leeds annual Olof Palme Memorial Peace Lecture will be given by the Chair of Trustees at The Peace Museum, Clive Barrett. The Leeds annual Olof Palme Memorial Peace Lecture was first established in 1987 by then MEP for Leeds, and former Leeds councillor, Michael McGowan, in memory of Olof Palme, a politician, statesman, […]

We’re working with visitor experience design company The Creative Core to develop our new public exhibition and engagement spaces at Salts Mill in Saltaire. The galleries have been designed with accessibility and audience engagement in mind, and will display a larger proportion of our collection. We’re aiming to reopen these galleries to the public in […]

The Peace Museum has received a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £245,651 towards our ‘IMAGINE: Creating The Peace Museum of the Future’ project. Made possible by money raised by National Lottery players, the project will create brand-new public exhibition and engagement spaces at Salts Mill in Saltaire. We are aiming to reopen the museum to the […]

The Peace Museum is thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a Level One Race in Heritage Award. A joint venture initiative between Black Cultural Archives and Inclusive Boards, the Race in Heritage Award is the only initiative in the United Kingdom that recognises and awards Arts, Culture and Heritage organisations that are actively […]

We’ve been awarded £48,883 as part of Art Fund’s Reimagine grants programme, to redevelop our engagement programme for our brand-new museum. At the end of 2022, Art Fund announced that it had awarded a total of £1.8m for projects which will help museums reimagine engagement with audiences. The Peace Museum has received some of this […]

The Peace Museum will be running a series of 10 free workshops for schools in 2023 as part of Museum Development England’s The Wild Escape scheme, in partnership with Art Fund UK. These sessions will be for KS2 classes in the Bradford area, and will run from January to March next year. The artwork produced […]