It all began on June 27, 1982 in Rummelsburg in East Berlin. On that day, the first peace workshop took place on the grounds of the Church of the Redeemer, initiated by environmental, peace and human rights groups with the participation of 3,000 visitors.
Activists for the founding of an anti-war museum in East Berlin publicly presented their first exhibition here. Others followed shortly thereafter at other locations. in 1984, a permanent exhibition space was opened in the Bartholomäuskirche, and in 1985 the library.
To date, more than 2,600 exhibitions have been shown to an audience of millions at almost 600 different locations, first in the GDR and later also in the united Federal Republic and abroad.
Many of the exhibitions focus on the biographies of people who have shown courage and attitude, stood up for other people and often paid for it with their lives.
With the work exhibition “a tremendous impetus to action,” the Museum Pankow honors the work of the Peace Library/Anti-War Museum.
A series of events are planned to accompany the exhibition.
