Apsel, Joyce <br/><br/>
Introducing Peace Museums 

 - Oxford  Taylor & Francis  2015 
 - 1 electronic resource (236 p.) 
 - Routledge Research in Museum Studies .
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> Nominated for the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in non-fiction This volume examines peace museums, a small and important (but often overlooked) series of museums whose numbers have multiplied world-wide in recent decades. They relate stories and display artifacts—banners, diaries, and posters for example about such themes as: art and peace, antiwar histories, protest, peacekeeping and social justice and promote cultures of peace. This book introduces their different approaches from Japan, which has the largest number of sites, to Bradford, UK and Guernica, Spain. Some peace museums and centers emphasize popular peace symbols and figures, others provide alternative narratives about conscientious objection or civil disobedience, and still others are sites of persuasion, challenging the status quo about issues of war, peace, disarmament, and related issues. Introducing Peace Museums distinguishes between different types of museums that are linked to peace in name, theme or purpose and discusses the debates which surround peace museums versus museums for peace. This book is the first of its kind to critically evaluate the exhibits and activities of this group of museums, and to consider the need for a "critical peace museum studies" which analyses their varied emphasis and content. The work of an experienced specialist, this welcome introduction to peace museums considers the challenges and opportunities faced by these institutions now and in the future. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781315816869 9781317811916 9780815346296 9780415739160 9781317811909 9781317811893 9781315816869 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.4324/9781315816869  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Museology and heritage studies<br/>Peace studies and conflict resolution<br/>Sociology<br/>Politics and government<br/>Cultural studies<br/>Social and cultural history<br/>Warfare and defence
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Human Rights Humanitarianism World Peace Activism Justice Anti-war Culture Egalitarian Peace Museums Kyoto Museum Nobel Peace Center Nuclear Disarmament Peace Histories International Peace Bureau Greenham Common Women’s Peace Permanent Exhibit Bertha Von Suttner Peace Education Military Expenditures Young Man La Pace Tokyo Air Raids Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Norwegian Nobel Committee Common Women’s Peace Camp Asia Pacific War Peace Studies Program Eta Prisoner Eta Violence