Download or read book Introducing Peace Museums written by Joyce Apsel and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines peace museums, a small and important (but often overlooked) series of museums whose numbers have multiplied internationally since the 1970s. It introduces the history and significance of peace museums and their different approaches through a selected series of peace museum sites. It attempts to categorize and distinguish between different types of museums that are linked to peace in name, theme or purpose and to urge a "critical peace museums studies" in examining their varied emphasis and content.