Tehran Peace Museum
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Tehran Peace Museum is a Persian/Iranian Museums based in District 12. This listing has been verified via Google Places with a rating of 4.2 stars based on 86 customer reviews. Highly recommended for the Persian-speaking community in District 12.
The Tehran Peace Museum is a special and thought-provoking place. When you enter the museum, it's like stepping into another world, a world that reminds you of the bitterness of war and the importance of peace and friendship between people. The museum's design is very simple and yet impressive. The photos, documents, and objects on display each tell a story of war and peace. Seeing the artwork and hearing the veterans' stories is truly moving. In my opinion, visiting this museum is a valuable experience for anyone seeking inner peace and tranquility.
The Tehran Peace Museum is a member of the International Network of Museums for Peace. The main objective of the museum is to promote a culture of peace through raising awareness about the devastating consequences of war, with a focus on the health and environmental impacts of chemical weapons. 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. On June 29, 2007, a memorial for the poison gas victims of the Iran–Iraq War (1980–88), along with a Peace Museum, was completed in a park in Tehran, capital of Iran. These facilities were established by the Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support (an Iranian NGO), the city of Tehran, some other NGOs, and individuals and groups in Hiroshima. The museum coordinates a peace education program that holds workshops on humanitarian law, disarmament, tolerance, and peace education. At the same time, it hosts conferences on the culture of peace, reconciliation, international humanitarian law, disarmament, and peace advocacy. Additionally, the museum houses a documentary studio that provides a workspace wherein the individual stories of victims of warfare can be captured and archived for the historical record. The museum’s peace library includes a collection of literature spanning topics from international law to the implementation of peace to oral histories of veterans and victims of war. The 3D Holographic images are exhibited here. They have been made from the portraits of Iran–Iraq War's Martyrs. They designed by Hesam Bani-Eghbal and his team on Hesam Animation Studio. Permanent and rotating peace-related art exhibitions, displaying the work of amateur international and Iranian artists and children's drawings, are also housed in the museum complex. Finally, the Iranian secretariat for the international organization Mayors for Peace is housed in the Tehran Peace Museum.
Interesting museum dedicated to peace and wictims of chemical weapons attack. Short introduction in English availiable
I had such a great time over at this place and learned a lot about history. The place is run by super kind people who were injured during the Iran-Iraq war. A must see museum and it is free to visit. Great for researchers as well!
A very interesting and rather unknown museum in Tehran. The personal working in this museum are war wounded from the Iran-Iraq war. It is definitely worth a visit and one can not but be affected and touched by this museum. Thumbs up!
Congratulation!