Kyoto Museum for World Peace
Kyoto Museum for World Peace 京都国際平和ミュージアム
Overview
Kyoto Museum for World Peace
The Kyoto Museum for World Peace is located close to and affiliated with Ritsumeikan University in northwest Kyoto.
Like other Peace museums sprinkled throughout Japan, it takes a reflective, strongly anti-war stance. The exhibits come, therefore, as a surprise to many Japanese young people who learn little in junior and senior high school of what their forebears did during World War II.
The basement has many items related to Japan's "Fifteen Year War" (like those on the Japanese left, the museum dates the beginning of the War to the Marco Polo Incident in 1931).
Back on the first floor, there is a Media Library for International Peace.
The museum's second-floor presents items that "hinder the peace process and explore pathways that ordinary people can take to eliminate these types of structural violence."
The Museum also holds annual news photography exhibits.
The galleries on the first and second floors are bright and spacious.
Relevant Routes
The Kyoto Museum for World Peace is on the Kinkakuji to Myoshinji Route.
Address
56-1 Kitamachi, Toji-in, Kita-ku, Kyoto
TEL: 075 465 8151
Hours
9:30 - 16:30（last entry 16:00); closed Mondays; 400 yen for adults.
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