Mayors for Peace Newsflash for June 2018 is published: Number of Iranian Members cities exceeds 1000

Mayors-for-PeaceMayors for Peace Newsflash for June 2018 was published and a section of that is dedicated to the news of total number of Iranian member cities exceeding 1000.

In this news flash it is stated that: " As of June 1, 2018, the number of Iranian member cities reached 1,003.

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State of Palestine Joins the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

palestine flagOn 21 June 2018, the state of Palestine became a member state to Chemical Weapons Convention after it deposited its instrument of accession on 17 May 2018 with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

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"Children and Peaceful Dreams" Drawing Exhibition

Children-and-Peaceful-Dreams-en-tim"Children and Peaceful Dreams" is the name of the exhibition by Hadis Early Childhood Education Centre in collaboration with Tehran Peace Museum . In this drawing exhibition, six years old children have depicted their dreams of a peaceful future.
" Children and Peaceful Dreams " is open for visits for all interested ones, especially the children as below:

Time:  21st to 23rd June 2018, 4 to 6 p.m.

Venue: Honar Gallery, Shafagh Cultural Center, Shafagh Park, Farahipour St., Yousefabad, Tehran

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Tehran Peace Museum is awarded as the best Private Iranian Museum in Education

icom-news-2018The eleventh round of selecting Best Museums of Iran was held in Artists Forum on 21 May 2018 on occasion of International Museums Day and Cultural Heritage Week with the international motto of "Hyper Connected Museums: New Approaches, New Publics".

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President of ICOFOM Visits TPM

icom-2018Mr. François Mairesse, President of ICOFOM (International Committee for Museology of ICOM) and wife visited TPM on 12th May 2018. In this visit which was coordinated by ICOM-Iran, Mr. Mairesse was accompanied by director of ICOM-Iran and got familiar with the history and consequences of the use of chemical weapons against Iran.

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TPM's Visiting Hours During Ramadan

WatchTehran Peace Museum is open for visits during holy month of Ramadan from Saturday to Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 16.

After Ramdan, we will be open as before from Saturday to Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 13 and 14:30 to 17.

We are closed on national holidays. TPM's admission fee is free.

Tehran Peace Museum’s Volunteer Participates in the Mayors for Peace Internship Program at the Mayors for Peace Secretariat

m4p-tim-inAfter publishing the news of accepting interns in Mayors for Peace(MfP), Ms. Fateme Babaha a young member of MfP team was introduced as the TPM’s representative to the secretariat in Hiroshima to participate in a 17-days internship program.

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Ambassador of Australia Visits TPM

Australia-timMr. Ian Biggs, ambassador of Australia in Tehran along with Mr. Tim Paterson,  deputy head of mission and Mr. Hamish Leslie, second secretary visited Tehran Peace Museum on 15 February 2018.

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The 21st Issue of INMP Newsletter Published

INMPThe 21st issue of the International Network of Museums for Peace (INMP) newsletter has been published. In this newsletter, you can read more about the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition as well as reports and articles on peaceful activities of various peace centers in the world, including from Japan, Norway, UK, India, USA, Germany, Belgium, Ireland, Cambodia, South Korea and The Netherlands. You can find the news on TPM's activities in pages 12 and 13.

To get the newsletter, please click here.

Season Greetings from Tehran Peace Museum

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Happy New Year 2018 from your friends at Tehran Peace Museum! We wish you all a peaceful year ahead, full of love, happiness and understanding.

 

To see TPM's postcard, please click here.

Focus on Survivors' Involvement

Focus on Survivors' Involvement

"Their burnt eyes and their coughs express their suffering more eloquently than any words"

While visiting the Hiroshima Peace Museum the founders of the Tehran Peace Museum realized the necessity of involving the victims of war in the creation of the museum. Only these individuals could provide credible accounts of the harsh realities of war and their correlating desire for peace.

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What is a Peace Museum?

What is a Peace Museum?

When you first hear of a "Peace museum" you may be slightly mystified or perhaps even a bit skeptical. It is easy to imagine what goes into a war museum but what can you put in a peace museum? And if the peace movement is to be represented in a museum does that mean it is being relegated to the past? 

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The Tehran Peace Museum

The Tehran Peace Museum

Currently housed in a building donated by the municipality of Tehran within the historic City Park, the Tehran Peace Museum is as much an interactive peace center as a museum. It coordinates a peace education program that holds workshops and hosts conferences on the culture of peace, reconciliation, international humanitarian law, disarmament and peace advocacy.

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Founding the Iranian Peace Museum

Founding the Iranian Peace Museum

Its founding began with a conversation between the founder of the Tehran-based Society for Chemical Weapons Victims support (SCWVS) and a coordinator for the international Peace Museums Network in 2005. This, as well as a visit to Hiroshima, Japan by members of SCWVS a year before, prompted the desire for a museum in Tehran.

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