Opening
hours: by appointment
Founded in 1993
Authority responsible: Heimatkreis
Wolfsegg im OÖ. Volksbildungswerk
Director: Franz Deutsch
Aims: Meeting-place and communication
centre for peace education. An important instrument
is some 100 Peace leaflets, written by the
director, which are meant to stimulate discussion,
and to translate peace education into practice.
Content: Material of Peace Museums all
over the world. Developments in our century:
Where does war begin? - Where does peace begin?
Special activities: Peace library in
the making; Gesprächsrunden (conversation
groups); meeting place for school classes;
special exhibition in the making: Des Kaisers
neue Kleider (The emperor´s new clothes).
Publications: Friedensmuseum im Aufbau,
brochure; Ein Friedensmuseum/A Peace Museum,
richly illustrated, 1993; "Erstes öesterreichisches
Friedensmuseum in Wolfsegg - ein Interview",
article in Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter,
1993, 3, 197-207.
Peace leaflets (you can read and download
them in German; please visit our homepage)