Historical Organization
Tehran Peace Museum
Tehran Peace Museum
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Organization Timeline
New Tehran Peace Museum building opens to visitors
đź“… 29 June 2011The new Tehran Peace Museum building opened to the public. Its work connected memories of chemical warfare with public education about peace.
Iranian and Japanese children exhibit peace drawings
đź“… 9 May 2012A peace-drawing exhibition by Iranian and Japanese children opened at Arasbaran cultural center, organized with the Tehran Peace Museum.
Eye-injury photographs bring survivors’ experience to The Hague
📅 December 2013Tehran Peace Museum and a victims’ society displayed photographs of lasting mustard-gas eye damage during the OPCW conference of 2-6 December.
Museum board discusses survivor peace messengers with OPCW
đź“… 6 December 2013Tehran Peace Museum board members met the OPCW director-general in The Hague to discuss survivor-led peace outreach and joint publications.
Peace Museum hosts humanitarian-law workshop
📅 18 December 2013Tehran Peace Museum held its third humanitarian-law workshop with the ICRC and Iran’s national committee, discussing wartime protection and chemical weapons.
British parliamentarians hear chemical survivors at museum
đź“… 7 January 2014Jack Straw and Jeremy Corbyn joined British parliamentarians visiting Tehran Peace Museum. Survivor guides discussed their experiences and difficulties obtaining medical supplies.
Canadian antiwar theatre artists visit survivor guides
📅 22 January 2014Artists performing Playing Chess with Doomsday’s Machine visited Tehran Peace Museum and spoke with its volunteers. The play adapted Habib Ahmadzadeh’s wartime novel.
International law researchers meet chemical survivors
đź“… 21 February 2014Visiting law lecturers and researchers met chemical-weapons survivors at Tehran Peace Museum and learned about lasting effects on health and the environment.
Halabja survivors and families visit Tehran Peace Museum
đź“… 25 February 2014Families and survivors of the Halabja gas attack visited Tehran Peace Museum. The exchange emphasized shared experience and solidarity between victims in Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan.
Persian translation of chemical-war study is launched
📅 March 2014Tehran Peace Museum hosted a launch of Joost Hiltermann’s study of chemical warfare, bringing researchers and chemical-attack survivors into discussion.
Peace convoy meets Iranian chemical-attack survivors
đź“… 5 April 2014International peace activists met war veterans and chemical-attack survivors at Tehran Peace Museum before a humanitarian journey to Syria.
Iranian children receive Hiroshima peace-drawing awards
đź“… 28 April 2014Two Iranian children received Hiroshima peace-drawing awards at Tehran Peace Museum, continuing its international peace-education exchanges.
UN honors Peace Museum’s public outreach
📅 29 April 2014UN resident coordinator Gary Lewis presented Tehran Peace Museum with a plaque recognizing its contribution to peace education and understanding of war’s consequences.
Antiwar poster exhibition is scheduled at Peace Museum
📅 29 April 2014Tehran Peace Museum announced an antiwar poster exhibition by Behnaz Nikkhah Monfared, with an opening on chemical-warfare victims’ remembrance day.
OPCW reports encounters at Tehran Peace Museum
📅 4 July 2017The OPCW reported its director-general’s Iranian visit, including engagement with chemical-weapons victims and the Tehran Peace Museum. The report preserved survivors’ place in disarmament outreach.