Mr. 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.

Tehran 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.

After 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.

Mr. 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.

The 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.

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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.

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TPM and SCWVS attended 22nd Conference of the States Parties (CSP22) to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) which was held by Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) at The Hague from November 27 to December 1, 2017.

"The Scent of Almond" exhibition was held on the sideline of 22nd Conference of the States Parties to Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in Hague, Netherlands from November 27 to December 1st, 2017.

According to Online Art Gallery reports, this exhibition was consisted of 18 select artworks from more than 150 ones, by 100 Iranian young artists who had participated in a competition by TPM and Online Gallery.

Following the professional courses of War and Peace, "French Revolution Analysis Course" was held in four sessions at TPM in November and December 2017.

Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has published a video on why participation of civil society matters in achieving the goals of Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).

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Mr. Stephan Scholz, Austrian ambassador to Iran, visited TPM on November 8th, 2017 by TPM's invitation.
Accompanied by the volunteer docents of TPM and CW survivors he had a tour of the museum; Thereafter he got acquainted with the other cultural and international activities of TPM and had a friendly chat with the volunteer members of the museum.

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. This campaign consists of 460 members from 100 countries and was established in 2007.

On 27 September 2017, the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Ambassador Üzümcü, made a statement on the completion of the full destruction of the 39,967 metric tons of chemical weapons possessed by the Russian Federation.

Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Dutch Parliament along with a delegation, including Mrs. Susanna Terstal, the ambassador of the Netherlands in Iran, whose country is in charge of the European Union in Iran, visited the TPM on Saturday, October 21, 2017 and got acquainted with its activities.

Mr. Richard Stone, the international news editor of Science Magazine visited TPM on 19 October 2017. This visit was a part of his program to get more information about the health effect of chemical weapons, the Iranian research in this field as well as the life of the Iranian victims of chemical weapons.  Before visiting TPM, Mr. Stone had meetings at Shahed University and Sasan Hospital in which he talked with prominent Iranian researchers in this field about their findings.

Four top researchers from the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) visited the museum on Monday, October 16th, with the invitation of the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) at the International Education and Research Center of Foreign Ministry and became acquainted with some of TPM's activities.

The 20th issue of the International Network of Museums for Peace (INMP) newsletter has been published and is now available online. In this newsletter, you can find reports of peaceful activities and articles from various peace museums and other peace related sites in Japan (Hiroshima & Kyoto), Switzerland (Geneva), UK (Bradford), Belgium (Ostend), USA (California & Ohio), Canada, Germany (Muenster & Frankfurt), the Netherlands (the Hague) and Pakistan. The TPM news has been reported in pages 3 & 4 of the newsletter.
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A ceremony on The International Day of Peace, with the theme of "All Together for Peace" was held by TPM on September 20th, 2017 in cooperation with The International Counsel of Museums (Iran ICOM) and The Counsel for Promoting a Culture of Peace for Children.

Tehran Peace Museum held two scientific sessions with the contribution of Berghof Foundation on "world citizenship" and "peace region" on Friday, September 22nd and Saturday 23rd.

The “Youth Dialogue and Peacebuilding” Summer School was held at TPM from 19th to 23rd September 2017. This course included participants from eight countries of the region: Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine, Yemen, Pakistan, Lebanon and Iran. The summer school was designed and held in cooperation with Berghof Foundation and included topics on peace, conflicts and intercultural dialogue.