The Peace Museum

This article is about the museum in Chicago. For other uses, see Peace museum.

The Peace Museum in Chicago was founded in 1981 by muralist Mark Rogovin and Marjorie Craig Benton, a former US UNICEF representative. Museum staff included Marianne Philbin, Paul Nebenzahl, Ruth Barrett, John Nawn, Kerry Cochrane, Sharon Queen, Sidney Schoenberger, Charles Thomas, Paul Murphy, LuAnne Lewandowski and Martin Moy. Terri Hemert, Jann Wenner, Paul Caruso and Robin Caruso, Paul Natkin, Jim Hirsch, Aaron Freeman, V. J. McAleer, Harold Washington, Danny Davis, Susan Catania and Harle Montgomery contributed to the Museum's growth.

In 1982, The Peace Museum hosted Give Peace A Chance, a major exhibition about music and peace, featuring John Lennon's guitar inscribed with two drawings of John and Yoko Ono in Lennon's hand. Ono wrote the dedication to the book for the exhibition, published by Chicago Review Press. Also featured in the show were U2, Bob Marley, Holly Near, Joan Baez, Stevie Wonder, Country Joe McDonald, Harry Chapin, Pete Seeger and Graham Nash, among others.

Chicago's Peace Museum opened its doors in 1981 with an exhibition called "The Unforgettable Fire" which featured drawings from survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. The exhibit drew the attention of the Irish rock band U2 who held benefits for the museum and named their next LP record after the exhibition. The Museum also hosted poster exhibitions of the art of John Heartfield, Daumier and Gary Trudeau.

The Peace Museum was one of two peace museums in the US. The other is the Dayton International Peace Museum. It closed sometime around 2007,^[1] and in 2011, a suit was brought by the State of Illinois to protect and distribute its collection.^[2]

References

↑ "How Peace Museum became a shadow of itself". Chicago Tribune. March 5, 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
↑ http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-02-10/news/ct-met-peace-museum-flap-20110210_1_chicago-s-peace-museum-jackie-rivet-river-museum-board-member

External links

Official website

Museums in Chicago

Art	Art Institute of Chicago Arts Club of Chicago Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art Intuit Loyola University Museum of Art Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Photography National Museum of Mexican Art National Veterans Art Museum Renaissance Society Smart Museum of Art Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art

Architecture	Charnley-Persky House Chicago Architecture Foundation Clarke House Driehaus Museum Glessner House Noble–Seymour–Crippen House Robie House

Children	Bronzeville Children's Museum Chicago Children's Museum StoryBus

Culture	Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture Museum of Broadcast Communications National Radio Hall of Fame Chicago Cultural Center Chicago Design Museum Chinese American Museum of Chicago DANK Haus German American Cultural Center Irish American Heritage Center Leather Archives and Museum Mitchell Museum of the American Indian National Hellenic Museum National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture Polish Museum of America Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership Swedish American Museum Ukrainian National Museum

History	Chicago History Museum DuSable Museum of African American History Hull House Money Museum Newberry Library Oriental Institute Pritzker Military Museum & Library Pullman National Monument

Science	Adler Planetarium Field Museum of Natural History International Museum of Surgical Science Museum of Science and Industry Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

Planned	American Writers Museum Barack Obama Presidential Center

Former	Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows

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