Canadian Peace Museum

Congratulations to our Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners! 🎉📸 🐘 Federico Veronesi is our Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026, awarded for his mesmerising image, ‘The Aftermath’. 🪲 Oscar Whitfield’s ‘Labour of Love’ crowns him our Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026.

An important interview. "Let’s go back to that time when we believed in peace. Why is it so wrong to start a global movement around the notion of peace and world peace? It’s possible." - Mirjana Spoljaric, @icrc.org President.

Today, Navi Pillay won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize “for her efforts to promote peace and international law” www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

"No Longer Coverable", by Jayden Deskes (2025) Art on loan from Kijicho Manito Madaouskarini Algonquin First Nation. Thank you; we are grateful. Tonight, our museum sign will be illuminated orange to acknowledge National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Yesterday, we launched our museum CBC radio interview: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Yesterday, we launched our museum CBC radio interview: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Thanks, @ocic.bsky.social for promoting our launch event! ocic.on.ca/canadian-pea...

Thanks, @ocic.bsky.social for promoting our launch event! ocic.on.ca/canadian-pea...

We're launching the Canadian Peace Museum next week in Bancroft, Ontario. Please join us at 4pm on September 21st, International Day of Peace. peacemuseumlaunch.eventbrite.ca

Thank you, Deb, for all your volunteerism today, helping us get the place ready. And, thanks for spreading the word about our launch!

Please join us on September 21st for the launch of the Canadian Peace Museum in Bancroft, Ontario, at 4pm. Please reserve your ticket via the link below peacemuseumlaunch.eventbrite.ca

We are delighted to be working in partnership with our local library. www.thespec.com/news/canada/...

We had some VIP visitors in the Peace Garden today.

We had some VIP visitors in the Peace Garden today.

Minor website upgrade, now includes a link to our location via @openstreetmap.bsky.social canadianpeacemuseum.ca/visit

You can read about our recent talk: "Peace and the Environment", in the latest edition of Bancroft this Week. www.calameo.com/read/0032892...

Invite - In conversation with Ken Mizokoshi: Remains Nagasaki Online, 26th Aug Event in partnership with @ippnw.bsky.social Canada, @nnmcc.bsky.social, and the Victoria Arts Council. canadianpeacemuseum.ca/newsletter/f...

17 August 1925 | Jewish boy of Polish origin, Maurice Poznanski, was born in Etterbeek. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 4 August 1942. He did not survive.

Congratulations to Kyle F., from Oshawa, who won the raffle for the Toronto Blue Jays tickets. Proceeds from the sale of the 186 tickets sold will support the renovation of our Peace Library and the North Hastings Public Library. Details: canadianpeacemuseum.ca/raffle

We're on Barbara Gaughen-Muller's Peace Podcast today: peacepodcast.org/chris-housto...

Mutually Assured Survival have just launched their new website: mutuallyassuredsurvival.world

We were delighted to give Bancroft mayor Paul Jenkins a tour of the museum renovations today.

As only 7 people have subscribed to our new newsletter, here’s our latest: 📆 Bancorft events tomorrow (peace and environmentalism talk, museum tour) ⚾️ Fundraising raffle for 4 @bluejays.com tickets canadianpeacemuseum.ca/newsletter/f...

The Ottawa Treaty on land mines was signed in 1997. It has 133 signatories. Still, land mines exist in many places and are indiscriminate in who is harmed. Children and farmers are among the groups at risk. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_...

More equal countries are more peaceful open.substack.com/pub/wilkinso...

Attacking civilian infrastructure is a war crime, with few exceptions (if the infrastructure is used for military purposes). Details, via @icrc.org: ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...

Great to sit down with @ricbresee.bsky.social today to talk about the need to learn about peace, the importance of engaging with youth, and the benefit the museum will bring to Bancroft.

We have a community garden. Want to use it? Great. Come and join us on Wednesday afternoons or Friday mornings. It’s a friendly and informal crowd. All are welcome. Zero cost. And it’s as much a social thing as a horticultural thing.

We have a community garden. Want to use it? Great. Come and join us on Wednesday afternoons or Friday mornings. It’s a friendly and informal crowd. All are welcome. Zero cost. And it’s as much a social thing as a horticultural thing.

We've launched a newsletter. And we have five subscribers so far. So here's a unique opportunity to be #6: canadianpeacemuseum.ca/newsletter/f...

Our Director, Chris, is at the launch of the 50th anniversary exhibit celebrating five decades of the critically important work of @ploughsharesca.bsky.social

Museums are not neutral. We are firmly, passionately, pro-peace. Funding for peace is difficult. You can help us by donating canadianpeacemuseum.ca/donate

Photos from today’s Walk for Peace, an event organized by Friends of the Canadian Peace Museum. News on the event: www.mybancroftnow.com/73552/news/c...

Tonight at the museum (June 18th, 2026), at 7pm, Erin Crecelius hosts the @cfscquakers.bsky.social and @nonviolentdefence.ca monthly book club. All are welcome. 🌐 Book club: quakerservice.ca/upcoming-eve... 🌐 Museum events: canadianpeacemuseum.ca/events

Is there any accounts for rating bees? Like a @weratedogs.com kinda thing? If so, we submit this photo of Bradley B.

Today’s VIP visitor to our peace garden We ❤️ pollinators Bee kind

Today’s VIP visitor to our peace garden We ❤️ pollinators Bee kind

Join us on June 23, 2025 to mark the 40th anniversary of the Air India Flight 182 bombing with film screenings of Calorie by Eisha Marjara and Flight 182 by Rippin Sindher. Learn more here: https://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/events/flight-182-40-remembering-the-1985-air-india-bombing-in-film/

Yesterday, there was a call for peace from the president of the International Confederation of Midwives Convention in Lisbon. @internationalmidwives.org Chief Executive, Anna af Ugglas said that 61% of maternal deaths occur in humanitarian and areas affected by conflict. #IDM2025

We had a VIP visitor supervising the renovations today. Any comments on the state of our window seals require a minimum $5 donation.