Dayton International Peace

The International Peace Museum is located at 10 N. Ludlow St on the Historic Courthouse Plaza in downtown Dayton, Ohio. The Museum was founded in 2004. The Museum is open from 10 to 5 pm every Friday and Saturday with many scheduled events throughout the week. Check our website for the most up-to-date information.

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Mission: Our mission is to inspire people to work for greater peace and compassion through education and collaboration.

Vision: We provide inspiration and the opportunity to learn alternatives to war, violence, and injustice. Our programs and exhibits are non-partisan, and secular, and feature themes of conflict resolution, equity, social justice, tolerance, and protecting our natural world.

Posts and reposts that appear on this site are not official museum endorsements and are provided to encourage peaceful dialogue on many different topics, viewpoints, news items, and perspectives.

We honor Dayton’s history as host of the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords and home to the most comprehensive exhibit of its kind on the subject. We believe strongly in collaboration with similarly-missioned organizations in the Miami Valley and in the world are active members of the Peace in Our Cities global initiative, the Austrian Service Abroad program, the Association of Children's Museums, and are active on the advisory board of the International Network of Museums of Peace based in Kyoto.

Our programs include Building Peace: a series of guest speakers on special topics, the MLK Dialogues series, a Great Discussions program on current geopolitical events, quarterly exhibits, teen programs, guided meditation, yoga, a children’s summer camp, and an annual summer program for teens and adults on subjects ranging from Kingian Nonviolence training, compassion education, peace literacy to human rights.

We are the official repository of each fiction and nonfiction book submitted annually to the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Recent winners of the Richard Holbrooke Award include John Irving, Hala Alyan, and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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