Park-e Shahr, with its 26 hectares (64 acres), is a major park and also a neighbourhood located in the central part of
Tehran in
Iran.It is located in Sanglaj neighborhood in Central part of
Tehran and resounded by fayaz bakhsh Street from north,Hafez street from west,Behesht street from south and Khayam street from east.
Currently housed in a building donated by the municipality of
Tehran within the historic City Park, the
Tehran Peace Museum is as much an interactive peace center as a museum.
The
Tehran Peace Museum is a member of the International Network of Museums for Peace. The main objective of the museum is to promote a culture of peace through raising awareness about the devastating consequences of war, with a focus on the health and environmental impacts of Chemical weapons.
On June 29, 2007, a memorial for the poison gas victims of the
Iran-Iraq War (1980–88), along with a Peace Museum, was
...see more completed in a park in Tehran, capital of Iran.
These facilities were established by the Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support (an Iranian NGO), the city of Tehran, some other NGOs, and individuals and groups in Hiroshima.
The museum coordinates a peace education program that holds workshops on humanitarian law, disarmament, tolerance, and peace education. At the same time, it hosts conferences on the culture of peace, reconciliation, international humanitarian law, disarmament, and peace advocacy.
Additionally, the museum houses a documentary studio that provides a workspace wherein the individual stories of victims of warfare can be captured and archived for the historical record.
The museum’s peace library includes a collection of literature spanning topics from international law to the implementation of peace to oral histories of veterans and victims of war.
Permanent and rotating peace-related art exhibitions, displaying the work of amateur international and Iranian artists and children's drawings, are also housed in the museum complex.
Finally, the Iranian secretariat for the international organization Mayors for Peace is housed in the Tehran Peace Museum.
Reference:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park-e_Shahr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran_peace_museum
