Mayor of Tehran Paid a visit to Tehran Peace Museum
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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
Kid's Guernica: AN INTERNATIONAL ART PROJECT FOR PEACE
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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".
Memorial ceremony for A-bomb victims, 6-9 August 2012
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In remembrance of 67th 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 6th August 2012, from 8:15am to 8:15pm and will be followed on 7th and 8th 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.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representative in Iran, visited Tehran Peace Museum
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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 .
Japanese students and their teachers visited Tehran Peace Museum
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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.
United Nations Children’s Fund (unicef) Representative in Iran, visited Tehran Peace Museum
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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