On the International Day of Peace, the United Nations calls for a complete cessation of hostilities around the world.

We also ask people everywhere to observe a minute of silence, at noon local time, to honour the victims – those who have lost their lives, and those who survived but must now cope with trauma and pain.

The theme of this year's observance is "Sustainable Peace for a Sustainable Future".

 Many children, their parents, activists, war veterans, NGO members and others gathered in the Tehran Peace museum on Friday 21 September to celebrate the International ِDay of Peace. The ceremony was started with the message of the UN secretary General which was delivered by the head of UNIC in Tehran then a short film by Iranian filmmaker “Abas Kiarostami” was screened. Children’s prayer for peace and one minute silence followed by candlelit vigil as well as speech by head of ICOM-Iran were other parts of the IDP observance in Tehran.

200 Peace Postcards from 20 different

countries from all over the globe

Date: 23 - 26 September 2012

ARASBARAN CULTURAL CENTER - Tehran

Visiting hours: 10 - 18

Addmition: free

The observance of the International day of Peace IDP will be held in Tehran peace museum on Friday 21 September 2012 from 17:00 to 18:30.

Citizens, activists, representatives of International organizations as well as several children who have participated in the “UN art for peace contest” will attend the ceremony.

Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples.

In this Year's observance in Tehran there will be several programs including : Message of the UN Secretary General, Candlelit vigil and art performance by children

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
Albert Einstein

Tehran Peace Museum is committed to promote peace through different means. We strongly believe that global peace is achievable and it can only be achieved by understanding. For a better understanding we need to communicate with each other more efficiently and this is why we thought Free English Discussion group fits into our mission.

This group is supposed to be a place where people can discuss about interesting peace related topics and the ways we can promote our goals at the same time that we practice our English.

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You don't need to be in certain age group or certain English skill level to join this group. Also there is no need for registration in advance. It’s a once in a month activity at Tehran Peace Museum and it is by donation for each session. The money goes to offset expenses and to promote Peace Museum's missions.

This is how it works: you like the topic; you drop by; you pay (if you like! ;-) and voila, you are all set to start Talking for Peace!

You can also choose to become a member of this group’s activity in Yahoo! Group, This way you will receive all updates and reminders for the sessions. To become a member of this group please send an E-mail to:

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Tehran Peace Museum

 Thanks to Canadian Poet "Robert Hicks" who has recently sent this impressive poem to the Tehran Peace Museum

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In remembrance of 67th anniversary of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki atomic bomb attack, TPM hosted an installation&video art: “1 second white, 1 second black”. This was an art work by Shirin Abedinirad and Alireza Amirhajebi, which performed on 6th August 2012, from 8:15am to 8:15pm and followed on 7th and 8th August.

Side events including workshop for making paper crane and telling the Sadako’s story held at the Peace Museum on the above mentioned days.

A delegation of survivors of chemical warfare and volunteers of Tehran Peace Museum who visited Hiroshima to attend the 67^th anniversary of A-bomb attack as well as several other meetings and events , met with “kazumi Matsui”, Mayor of Hiroshima on 7 August 2012.

During this meeting which was a part of “Messengers of Peace” mission organized by Tehran Peace Museum and the Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support  - SCWVS -, Mayor Matsui expressed his support to the exchanges between peace museums of Tehran and Hiroshima as well as fruitful peace exchanges between NGOs and citizens of Iran and Japan since 2004.

At the end of this meeting, envoy of the Mayor of Tehran, handed the message of Mayor Qalibaf to Mayor Matsui.

Bagher Qalibaf, Mayor of Tehran paid a visit to Tehran Peace Museum on Monday 30 July 2012.
Following his visit to different sections of the museum, he had a meeting with board members as well as volunteer members of the museum including survivors of chemical weapons attacks who work for TPM as volunteer guides.

During his visit the project of documentation and oral history of chemical warfare survivors was launched officially. To see photos of this visit click here 

2012/06/28 - 2012/10/14

In order to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Gernika, the Gernika Peace Museum, the Peace Research Center Gernika Gogoratuz and the Culture House of Gernika, have organized the International Art Project for Peace, "Kids’ Guernica". It is a major mural exhibition painted by children in different parts of the world on canvas measuring 3.50 x 7.80 m, referring to Picasso’s "Guernica".

In remembrance of 67^th anniversary of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki atomic bomb attack, Tehran Peace Museum will host the installation and video art : “1 second white, 1 second black”.

This is an art work by Shirin Abedinirad and Alireza Amirhajebi, which will be performed on 6^th August 2012, from 8:15am to 8:15pm and will be followed on 7^th and 8^th August.

Side events including workshop for making paper crane, reading Sadako’s story, prayer for world peace, etc.. Will be held at the Peace Museum on those days.

Mr. Bernard Doyle, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representative in Iran, visited Tehran Peace Museum on 22 July 2012.

During this an hour visit, representatives of UNHCR office in Iran also had a meeting with Tehran Peace Museum’s members and volunteer guides to discuss the possibilities for future collaboration and joint projects with focus on raising awareness about the consequences of war with focus on supporting war refugees as a peaceful and humanitarian value as well as spreading peace and friendship culture .

A group of Japanese students of the Japanese school in Tehran along with their teachers, visited Tehran Peace Museum on Wednesday 18 July 2012.

During this visit, which was part of their educational program about war and peace, the students also watched documentary films about atomic bomb attack to Hiroshima and Nagazaki and had chance to talk to war survivors who volunteer for the peace Museum.

Click here to see more photos of this visit

Mr.Mohamed El Munir Safieldin, United Nations Children’s Fund (unicef) Representative in Iran, visited Tehran Peace Museum on 16 July 2012.

During this visit, which lasted more than an hour, representatives of unicef office in Iran also had a meeting with Tehran Peace Museum’s members and volunteers to discuss the possibilities for future collaboration and joint projects with focus on Children & Peace related issues as well as peace education program.

to see the photos of this visit click here

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A group of foreign journalists and Participants of the World Conference  on Women & Islamic Awakening visited  Tehran Peace Museum on 12 July 2012

Tehran Peace Museum is pleased to announce that the English Discussion Group with the focus on peace related topics has been started since few weeks ago. 

 All interested individuals who are in intermediate to advanced levels of English are welcome to join the group.

 It would be a great opportunity not only to improve listening/speaking skill but also to exchange Ideas about different topics and improve our knowledge.

On the occasion of “National day for campaigning against Chemical Weapons” there will be an opportunity for all citizens to meet with survivors of chemical warfare and listen to their eye witness accounts.

On Thursday 28 June, at Tehran Peace Museum several CW victims - most of them are volunteer guides of the museum – will host visitors to share their experience with them and to raise awareness about the consequences of Chemical Weapons.

Those who are interested to meet with them and listen to first hand eye witness accounts are invited to join us on 28 June 2012 from 9 am to 4 pm.

On the sideline of the event there will be several presentations by experts and art exhibitions in the museum.  For group visits contact us in advance.

Less than 100 days left to the International Day of peace .

The International Day of Peace, marked every year on 21 September, gives us all a chance to reflect on the unconscionable toll – moral, physical, material – wrought by war.  Those costs are borne not only by us today, but by future generations as well.

This year, Tehran Peace Museum as usual, will organize an observance on this day.  Further details of the event will be announced soon. If you are interested in contributing in this event , please contact us!

A Masters degree in "conflictology"

The first of joint activities to be undertaken under the new cooperation between UNITAR (The United Nations Institute for Training and Research) and the Open University of Catalunya, in collaboration with Peacekeeping Programme that will be followed by joint activities in international law.

  TPM - ICRC Collaboration

According to an agreement between the International Committee of Red Cross ICRC and Tehran Peace Museum TPM, a series of training courses on International Humanitarian Law IHL will be held in TPM . the first program of such series would be a workshop on IHL and use of prohibited weapons which will be held at TPM in mid July 2012.Although this workshop is primarily designed for students of International Law, however those with other backgrounds who are interested in participating in the workshop can apply.

For further information and application please contact us via email.