Give Peace a Chance
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The museum’s headquarters are now in the golden-domed field house at Garfield Park. There’s office and storage space galore, Rivet-River says, but the “most exciting” thing is that all of the city’s field houses are potential galleries. Founded by muralist Mark Rogovin and philanthropist Marjorie Craig Benton, the Peace Museum promotes nonviolent solutions to social problems through education and exhibits. It has 30 exhibits–including “The Unforgettable Fire,” about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (which inspired the U2 album of the same name)–and 10,000 artifacts. The first field house shows are already up: “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.–Peacemaker” at Garfield Park; “Paul Robeson: Hero of Black Resistance” at Douglas Park; and “A Celebration of Peacemakers,” about women activists, at LaFollette Park. They all continue through the end of May.
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