A delegation of survivors of chemical warfare and volunteers of Tehran Peace Museum who visited Hiroshima to attend the 67^th anniversary of A-bomb attack as well as several other meetings and events , met with “kazumi Matsui”, Mayor of Hiroshima on 7 August 2012.

During this meeting which was a part of “Messengers of Peace” mission organized by Tehran Peace Museum and the Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support  - SCWVS -, Mayor Matsui expressed his support to the exchanges between peace museums of Tehran and Hiroshima as well as fruitful peace exchanges between NGOs and citizens of Iran and Japan since 2004.

At the end of this meeting, envoy of the Mayor of Tehran, handed the message of Mayor Qalibaf to Mayor Matsui.

Bagher Qalibaf, Mayor of Tehran paid a visit to Tehran Peace Museum on Monday 30 July 2012.
Following his visit to different sections of the museum, he had a meeting with board members as well as volunteer members of the museum including survivors of chemical weapons attacks who work for TPM as volunteer guides.

During his visit the project of documentation and oral history of chemical warfare survivors was launched officially. To see photos of this visit click here 

2012/06/28 - 2012/10/14

In order to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Gernika, the Gernika Peace Museum, the Peace Research Center Gernika Gogoratuz and the Culture House of Gernika, have organized the International Art Project for Peace, "Kids’ Guernica". It is a major mural exhibition painted by children in different parts of the world on canvas measuring 3.50 x 7.80 m, referring to Picasso’s "Guernica".

In remembrance of 67^th anniversary of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki atomic bomb attack, Tehran Peace Museum will host the installation and video art : “1 second white, 1 second black”.

This is an art work by Shirin Abedinirad and Alireza Amirhajebi, which will be performed on 6^th August 2012, from 8:15am to 8:15pm and will be followed on 7^th and 8^th August.

Side events including workshop for making paper crane, reading Sadako’s story, prayer for world peace, etc.. Will be held at the Peace Museum on those days.

Mr. Bernard Doyle, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representative in Iran, visited Tehran Peace Museum on 22 July 2012.

During this an hour visit, representatives of UNHCR office in Iran also had a meeting with Tehran Peace Museum’s members and volunteer guides to discuss the possibilities for future collaboration and joint projects with focus on raising awareness about the consequences of war with focus on supporting war refugees as a peaceful and humanitarian value as well as spreading peace and friendship culture .

A group of Japanese students of the Japanese school in Tehran along with their teachers, visited Tehran Peace Museum on Wednesday 18 July 2012.

During this visit, which was part of their educational program about war and peace, the students also watched documentary films about atomic bomb attack to Hiroshima and Nagazaki and had chance to talk to war survivors who volunteer for the peace Museum.

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Mr.Mohamed El Munir Safieldin, United Nations Children’s Fund (unicef) Representative in Iran, visited Tehran Peace Museum on 16 July 2012.

During this visit, which lasted more than an hour, representatives of unicef office in Iran also had a meeting with Tehran Peace Museum’s members and volunteers to discuss the possibilities for future collaboration and joint projects with focus on Children & Peace related issues as well as peace education program.

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A group of foreign journalists and Participants of the World Conference  on Women & Islamic Awakening visited  Tehran Peace Museum on 12 July 2012

Tehran Peace Museum is pleased to announce that the English Discussion Group with the focus on peace related topics has been started since few weeks ago. 

 All interested individuals who are in intermediate to advanced levels of English are welcome to join the group.

 It would be a great opportunity not only to improve listening/speaking skill but also to exchange Ideas about different topics and improve our knowledge.

On the occasion of “National day for campaigning against Chemical Weapons” there will be an opportunity for all citizens to meet with survivors of chemical warfare and listen to their eye witness accounts.

On Thursday 28 June, at Tehran Peace Museum several CW victims - most of them are volunteer guides of the museum – will host visitors to share their experience with them and to raise awareness about the consequences of Chemical Weapons.

Those who are interested to meet with them and listen to first hand eye witness accounts are invited to join us on 28 June 2012 from 9 am to 4 pm.

On the sideline of the event there will be several presentations by experts and art exhibitions in the museum.  For group visits contact us in advance.