Events like the Dayton Peace Accords 5k run help us connect to new people in the city. Thank you to all of our participants and sponsors. We'll see you at next year's run, April 17th, 2010.

Our volunteers are the heart and soul of the Museum. We come together from all faiths and backgrounds around our shared vision of a peaceful world and a peaceful community.

Governor Strickland greets Ralph at the Future Energy and Conservation Center, the Peace Museum's environmental branch. Located on the homestead farm of Museum founders Chris and Ralph Dull, many of Ohio's top elected officials have paid a visit.

The Dayton Peace Museum is committed to helping young people create a better future for their community. Youth lead forums on tolerance, diversity, and violence in Dayton.

The Dayton International Peace Museum celebrates the 1994 Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in Bosnia, and represents Dayton as a city of peace all around the world.

Our exhibits

In our five years, the Peace Museum has presented over two dozen exhibits on peacemaking, nonviolence, and a range of related social justice issues, from world hunger to the protection of minority rights to the need for global environmental action.

Our exhibits aim to engage and inform our guests. We shine a light on the efforts of peacemakers both local and worldwide. We remind our neighbors in Dayton of their rich history of peace-making, on-going and historical. And we illustrate the work that is still unfinished: the dream of a nuclear weapon-free world; the people being trafficked in the modern slave-trade.

Together Peace Works

Currently, "Together Peace Works" is the featured exhibit in our main room.

  • Winter-Spring 2010: Together Peace Works -- An interactive exhibit to engage youth in dealing constructively with the violence in their community.
  • Spring 2010: Human Trafficking. -- Modern-day slavery and the new abolitionist movement.

    • At the Museum now

    • The Dayton Peace Accords. The conference that stopped a war and put a small Ohio city on the geopolitical map
    • 25 Nonviolent Solutions. How nonviolent actions have changed the world
    • Ohio: State of Peace. A history of peace movements in Ohio
    • Sister Dorothy Stang. The moving story of Dayton’s own humanitarian martyr
    • Ted Studebaker. A Dayton-area conscientious-objector who was sent to Vietnam as a farmer rather than a soldier
    • Nobel Peace Laureates. Honoring men and women who have advanced World Peace
    • Pete Seeger: A Life in Song. Bringing to life the music and history of an American folk hero for a new generation.
    • Hiroshima. A local artist’s perspective on the world’s first atomic tragedy
    • The Cuban Travel Embargo. The impact of American geopolitics on Cuban-American families
    • The Holocaust.The state-sponsored genocide of European Jews during World War II
    • The UN. The world's organ of non-violent international dispute resolution.

    Youth exhibits

    Our Youth Room contains our collection of Peace Art from local high schools and elementaries. It also houses our display of Dayton-area high school Peacemaker Award winners.