Art for Peace project

(Create art projects that have peace and anti-violence as their core messages)

• Create workshops for training the trainers
• Collect art education material for Museum Library.
• Purchase material necessary for art projects and art workshops.
• Program art workshops.

Messengers of Peace

(Survivors of chemical warfare undergo training to serve as peace ambassadors from Iran to different international symposia/ conferences and public events.

To raise awareness through eye witness accounts as well and to deliver message of peace )

• Organize 10-hour training workshops for peace messengers (gas attacks survivors).
• Research relevant peace symposia and conferences for attendance.
• Organize trips (one every three months).
• Create reports from each trip and publish reports on Museum website.

Traveling C-bomb exhibition

(This multi-lingual exhibition includes images and archival material about chemical warfare and its effects on survivors for the purpose of raising awareness)

• Select relevant images from the archives and write accompany material.
• Translate material to several languages.
• Curate and design the exhibition posters.
• Print exhibition posters and create digital format of the exhibition.
• Send the exhibition package to relevant destinations to be displayed.
• Display the exhibition during the “Messengers of Peace” missions.

پروژه آموزش فرهنگ صلح

Peace Education

(این آموزش در سطوح مختلف برای دانش آموزان، دانشجویان و سطح عمومی با محتوای مبتنی بر مفاهیم دینی و ملی برگزار میشود)

   برگزاری دو کارگاه آموزشی برای مربیان TOT

   گردآوری تجربیات موجود در سایر کشورها

   گردآوری متون و مواد درسی مرتبط

   بومی سازی مواد و محتوای آموزشی

   اجرای برنامه آموزشی برای مخاطیان در جند سطح

Phoenix Project

(Survivors of chemical warfare volunteer as guides to the Peace Museum for their invited friends, family, and colleagues, They also work as peace ambassadors in their own communities by educating others about creating a culture of peace and by encouraging them to visit the Museum.)

• Organize workshops for survivors on how to narrate and provide information on their guided tours.
• Put together educational opportunities for survivors, especially focused on foreign language training.
• Design invitation cards for outreach purposes and uniforms for volunteer guides.
• Produce material for guided tours, as well as public relations material for outreach purposes.
• File monthly report from each member in the museum archives.

Oral History project

of Chemical Warfare Survivors

(This project aims to gather long-form interviews with survivors of chemical warfare in order to create an archive of their histories. Interviews will be both audio and video, with transcripts available in the original Persian as well as English translations.)

• Organize workshops aimed at teaching how to conduct oral history interviews.
• Interview 20 survivors per month.
• Interview experts on chemical warfare and physicians familiar with cases of chemical exposure.
• Transcribe all interviews.
• Gather archival material related to chemical warfare.
• Create a digital archive of the interviews products (Audio, Video, texts)

Peace and Smile Project

(Organize tours to war-torn areas, battlefields, spiritual centers, and ecological sites with the purpose of learning lessons from the past and being messengers of peace)

• Identify locations for travel.
• Create tour itinerary.
• Collect travel guide and relevant materials
• Create tours to war-torn areas and battlefield sites, both domestic and international, with the purpose of peace education.
• Create an international and domestic network of peace tours.

What is a Peace Museum?

When you first hear of a "Peace museum" you may be slightly mystified or perhaps even a bit skeptical. It is easy to imagine what goes into a war museum but what can you put in a peace museum? And if the peace movement is to be represented in a museum does that mean it is being relegated to the past? 

Founding the Iranian Peace Museum

Its founding began with a conversation between the founder of the Tehran-based Society for Chemical Weapons Victims support (SCWVS) and a coordinator for the international Peace Museums Network in 2005. This, as well as a visit to Hiroshima, Japan by members of SCWVS a year before, prompted the desire for a museum in Tehran.

Focus on Survivors' Involvement

"Their burnt eyes and their coughs express their suffering more eloquently than any words"

While visiting the Hiroshima Peace Museum the founders of the Tehran Peace Museum realized the necessity of involving the victims of war in the creation of the museum. Only these individuals could provide credible accounts of the harsh realities of war and their correlating desire for peace.