Interim Museum
This drawing by one of the Drexel University architectural students referred to elsewhere shows one concept of what Envision Peace Museum’s ultimate building might look like. The building is planned to open around the year 2015. As a major step in this direction, a smaller scale museum is planned for opening in 2011. This Envision welcome or orientation center will house a core exhibit, a changing exhibit space, classrooms for educational programs, offices, and other essentials.
Envision on the Parkway - by E. Kerr
Online Virtual Museum
An online version of the Museum’s resources and offerings soon will be available - including story collections, exhibits, forums, and other important features.
Next Traveling Exhibit
As part of its ever-growing “Museum Beyond the Walls,” Envision has begun planning a second traveling exhibit. Watch for news about the availability of this new resource.
Initial Development Plan
Building upon its Strategic Plan, Envision has begun constructing a combined business / design concept Development Plan that describes detailed implementation strategies for achieving the Museum’s central goals.
The Ultimate Museum
The museum foreseen to open in 2015 will contain vastly expanded facilities and programs:
- Multiple exhibit galleries
- Living Collections: stories, artifacts, tools for change …
- More classrooms for education
- An auditorium for lectures and forums
- Ever growing and changing traveling exhibits and programs
- Research and scholarship in peace studies and nonviolent action
- Museum journal focused on museums and exhibits of social change.
- Clearinghouse and referral center on nonviolent peace-building
One Comment
Since we know that all conflict, no matter what the symptoms are, is rooted in competition for what the parties believe to be limited resources, then only follows that all peace is rooted in safety and security. Please, consider meeting with psychologists and sociologists and linguists who understand trauma transformation, fear reduction, and true “homeland security”.
As an example of this process, you might consider the invitations to this museum and the path leading up to the museum, a place to address what must be left behind in order to believe that peace is possible. Honoring each ones trauma healing process and giving people a feeling of safety comes before opening their minds to the viability of Peace on Earth. Contacting Eastern Mennonite’s Conflict Transformation Department and speaking to those who teach trauma transformation, would be excellent. Building that safe place in the first impressions, can be done artistically and subtly, but it must be intentional.
Another way to prevent preaching to the choir in the first impressions, could come from a framing specialist like George Lakoff. To help your design team understand his value, you may encourage them to listen to his talk at the Philadelphia free library during his speaking tour when the book The Political Minds first came out; it is still up on line under past author’s events.
Lastly, to address the world view of competition that has become equated with patriotism, and the fear of limited resources, which is the underlying cause of all conflict, their could be a section describing the link between living simply “with in our means” and peace building.
Note: I would also like to see Peace Builder as a profession some day, as it is in some countries.
Thank you for listening to all this.
I wish I could be of more active participation, but this is it for now!
Welakamike!
~RuthAnn
(lenape for pretty land of peace)