Welcome to Peace Museum Vienna

Peace begins with people. It begins with kindness, understanding, curiosity, and the courage to care for one another. It grows through listening, learning, and working together to create communities where everyone can live with dignity and respect. At Peace Museum Vienna, we believe peace is not a distant ideal—it is something we can practice every day. Our museum is a place to explore inspiring stories, discover new perspectives, and reflect on the role each of us can play in building a more peaceful world.

A Museum Dedicated to Peace

Peace Museum Vienna is a space for learning, dialogue, and inspiration. Through exhibitions, art, history, education, and community events, we celebrate the people and ideas that have helped shape a more compassionate and just society. Every visitor is invited to explore peace not as an abstract concept, but as a living practice that connects individuals, communities, cultures, and generations.

Building Positive Peace

Peace is much more than harmony—it is creating the conditions in which people and communities can flourish. Positive Peace is built on fairness, inclusion, respect for human rights, education, cooperation, and care for our shared future. It encourages us to strengthen the relationships, institutions, and values that allow everyone to live with opportunity, security, and hope. Positive Peace reminds us that peace is something we create together, every day, through the choices we make and the way we treat one another.

Our Story

Peace Museum Vienna was founded in 2014 with a simple vision: to create a place where peace itself is at the center of the conversation. From the beginning, the museum has brought together stories of remarkable peacebuilders alongside the everyday actions that strengthen understanding, empathy, and cooperation. Inspired by Vienna's rich cultural heritage and its long tradition of international dialogue, the museum has become a welcoming space for visitors of all ages to learn, reflect, and engage. Today, Peace Museum Vienna continues to grow as a place where history, education, art, and community come together with a shared purpose—to inspire a culture of peace for present and future generations.

We invite you to explore, to ask, to connect, and to discover that peace begins with each of us.