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Museum in Saltaire, England

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The Peace Museum
Entrance to The Peace Museum at Salts Mill

Established	1994
Location	Salt's Mill, Saltaire, Bradford
Coordinates	53°50′20″N 1°47′16″W / 53.8388°N 1.7879°W / 53.8388; -1.7879
Accreditation	Arts Council England (AN:1778)
Collection size	7,000 exhibits
Website	peacemuseum.org.uk

The Peace Museum in Saltaire, West Yorkshire is the only museum in the UK dedicated to the history and stories of peace, peacemakers and the peace movement.

The initial idea of creating a peace museum arose in the mid-1980s from Gerald Drewett of the Give Peace a Chance Trust. In 1990 this was carried forward when Shireen Shah, an MA student at Bradford University’s Peace Studies Department, wrote a dissertation proposing a ‘Museum for Peace’. Two years on, the International Network of Museums for Peace held its first conference at the University of Bradford in 1992, during which it was proposed that a Peace Museum be established in Bradford. A committee was established to seek finance and general support for the idea. Initially called ‘The National Peace Museum Project’, the museum was established in 1994 through a five-year grant from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Foundation and operated from a temporary site in Bradford in the Wool Exchange. In 1998 the museum moved to the top floor of 10 Piece Hall Yard, in Bradford city centre.

The museum has a varied temporary exhibition programme, hosting several exhibitions and displays throughout the year. Past exhibitions have included 'A force for peace? The History of European Cooperation' (ended 2016) exploring the peace history behind the European Union, 'Challenging the Fabric of Society' showcasing the protest banners that are part of its textile collection (until March 2017), and 'Remembering the Kindertransport' to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day (until April 2017).

The museum closed its Piece Hall Yard site in 2020 and reopened at Salts Mill, Saltaire, in August 2024. The museum's artefacts had been stored in the basement of Salts Mill in the interim.

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City of Bradford museums	Baildon Bracken Hall Countryside Centre and Museum Bradford Bolling Hall Museum Bradford Industrial Museum Cartwright Hall National Science and Media Museum Peace Museum Haworth Brontë Parsonage Museum Ilkley: Ilkley Toy Museum Manor House Museum Keighley Cliffe Castle Museum East Riddlesden Hall Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Museum of Rail Travel Saltaire Salts Mill
Calderdale museums	Brighouse Smith Art Gallery Halifax Bankfield Museum Calderdale Industrial Museum Dean Clough Eureka! The National Children's Museum Hebden Bridge Gibson Mill Heptonstall Heptonstall Museum Shibden Shibden Hall
Kirklees museums	Batley & Birstall Bagshaw Museum, Oakwell Hall Dewsbury Dewsbury Bus Museum Dewsbury Museum Gomersal Red House Museum Huddersfield Castle Hill Colne Valley Museum Rugby League Heritage Centre Tolson Museum Marsden: Standedge Tunnel Visitor Centre
City of Leeds museums	Aberford Lotherton Hall Leeds Abbey House Museum Armley Mills Industrial Museum Bramham Park Harewood House Henry Moore Institute in Leeds Kirkstall Abbey Leeds Art Gallery Leeds City Museum Leeds College of Art Middleton Railway Museum Royal Armouries Museum Temple Newsam Thackray Museum Thwaite Watermill Otley Otley Museum
City of Wakefield museums	Netherton National Coal Mining Museum for England Nostell Nostell Priory Pontefract Pontefract Museum Wakefield The Hepworth Wakefield Wakefield Museum
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