Shahab Hosseini Visits Tehran Peace Museum
Cannes’ Best Actor Award winner, Shahab Hosseini, a figure adored by the public visited Tehran’s Musuem of Peace this week. During his 2-hour visit, Hosseini keenly listened to the museum’s tour guides in an attempt to enrich his knowledge about peaceful means and the museum’s objectives. A major part of the tour was as always dedicated to understanding the criminality and fatality of chemical weapons and the way they affected the Iranian population and veterans of war.
Online painting gallery for the youth, entitled "Peace Means...", commemorating the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima
Tehran Peace Museum in collaboration with Visual Arts Press holds the “Peace Means” online exhibition. This exhibition aims to enrich teenagers’ knowledge and celebrates valuable notions such as respecting human rights, non-violenceو rejecting discrimination, embracing individualism, diversity, mutual understanding and tolerance.
"Weapons of Mass Destruction; World's Common Distress" at Tehran Peace Museum
On Tuesday 25 May 2016, Tehran Peace Museum organized an event named "Weapons of mass destruction; world's common distress" in collaboration with Iranian affiliate of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) (PSR-Iran). The participants including youths and medical students discussed the issue of weapons of mass destruction and a world free of their harms.
Tehran Peace Museum, Best Private Museum in “Introducing Cultural and Historical legacy”
In a ceremony on 18th, May 2016 for choosing the best and superior museums in Iran, Tehran Peace Museum (TPM) was chosen as the best private museum in “Introducing Cultural and Historical legacy” for the last solar year. A large number of members and staff of Iranian museums and officials from Iranian ICOM (International Council of Museums) were among participants. Since 2012, TPM has been awarded in several items including “Education, Number of Visitors, Creativity & Innovation, Introducing Cultural & Historical Legacy and Collecting Cultural-Historical Belongings”.
“The educational efforts of the TPM are remarkable” said the president of the ICOM in his visit of the TPM
On May 14th, 2016, Professor Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Hinz, the president of the International Council of Museums and his wife visited the Tehran Peace Museum. In this visit, he was accompanied by the officials from the Iranian ICOM.