208 W. Monument Ave.
Dayton, OH 45402
| Tuesday - Saturday | 10:00 am - 5:00 pm |
| Sunday | 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
| Monday | Closed |
Free, but donations are appreciated.
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Steve Fryburg
phone: 937-227-3223
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To choose violence and conflict is easy. Pick up a gun. Drop a bomb. Ignore the rights of others. To choose peace is more difficult. The arsenal of peace has no weapons but nonviolence, compassion, faith, and reason.
If peace is to be a viable alternative in a world inundated with violence, the message of peace must have constant presence. It needs to be available to those who would choose and work for peace, but who often feel alone or defeated. It needs to be a message heard over and over by children. It needs to be incorporated into everyday activities. Its promise needs to resonate in the streets.
To achieve its lofty goals, peace needs to be grounded. It needs a sign for all to see, a building that gives honor to the messengers of peace, past, present, and future. Like art museums around the world, a peace museum can give room for recognition, experimentation, education, training, and appreciation. Peace, like art, needs a space to breathe while the world determines whether or not its message is worthwhile.
The Dayton International Peace Museum is such a space, a high-profile place where visitors can find the arsenal of peace. Though many peace centers, institutes, and similar organizations exist around world, Dayton’s burgeoning peace community can contribute exponentially to the worldwide peace-building movement. The Museum is not meant to compete with or supercede other groups and organizations. Its success will be based on how it encourages, supports, and supplements the already diverse and unwieldy spirit of peace that is underrated and often unheard.
Incorporated in 2004. In its current location since the fall of 2005. The director, Steve Fryburg, is on the Executive Committee of the International Network of Museums for Peace which spans 33 countries.
posters, buttons, clothing, medals, religious artifacts pertaining to history of peace and nonviolence.
Peace & Social Justice Library approximately 2000 pieces, books, audio, video.
School nonviolence education. Meditation.
Access: General Public, Students, Scholars, Members
Appointment required: False
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