The Peace Museum

05/11/2026

Join us for an afternoon of celebration at The Peace Museum reopening event on Saturday 14 November. Explore our transformed (and now cosy all year round) gallery space in Salts Mill!

What's on and what's new?
🟢 Opening of our latest special exhibition 'Pressing Matters: The Power of Print'
🟢 Live music from The Peace Artistes street band
🟢 Printmaking fun from The People Powered Press
🟢 Live reading of 'Letters to the Future'. Part of our new display by internationally acclaimed artist Ann Hamilton.
🟢 'The Common Room' reading space developed with Mek Summat, featuring books from Commonweal - For a Nonviolent World and built by Chris Holmes
🟢 ‘Make Art Not War’ activity station & museum trails designed and built by Mek Summat and Plaey
🟢 'Here We Stand' display showcasing short films created by young people for Bradford 2025
🟢 Updated displays of The Peace Museum 16,000+ object collection
🟢 We now have heating and can remain open through winter!

Our capital project was made possible with funding from Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as part of the legacy of Bradford UK City of Culture 2025.

🟡 Find us: 3rd floor, Salts Mill, Saltaire, Bradford, West Yorkshire
🟡 Reopening event: Sat 14 Nov | 1-3pm
🟡 Regular opening times from 14 Nov: Thurs - Sun | 10am - 4pm
🟡 More info: www.peacemuseum.org.uk

02/10/2026

Throwback to a film we're still so proud to have been part of, celebrating Bradford as a City of Sanctuary. 💚

It's a reminder that Bradford is a place where people are met with empathy, and that creating a culture of welcome is something we can all help build.

City of Sanctuary Bradford support people seeking sanctuary and bring communities together across the district. Their work is vital, and it makes a real difference to people's lives.

🎬 Watch the film, made by Bradford Culture Company:

To celebrate Bradford being officially named the first ever Cultura...

21/09/2026

A Climate for Peace 🌍

Today marks both the International Day of Peace and the start of the Global Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice

Climate breakdown and conflict are deeply interconnected, and we believe our work has a role to play in exploring this vital link.

Moving forward, we're embedding environmental awareness and climate justice exploration into our programming to explore what it might take to build a peace that holds for people and planet alike.

To start of this week, we have shared a blog post on our website by one of our trustees, Ellie Kinney. Ellie is a Climate Advocacy Coordinator at the Conflict and Environment Observatory.

Coming soon: an online event series bringing together artists, activists, and thinkers to investigate how climate breakdown, conflict, and inequality intersect.

This is the first step in a larger commitment to weave climate awareness and exploration throughout our work.

If this sounds like something you’re interested in, sign up for updates via our newsletter. Link in our bio.

11/09/2026

PEACE. PRINT. POWER. It’s all happening this weekend in Saltaire!

Want to be part of our next special exhibition? Join People Powered Press this weekend for drop-in workshops using their letterpress to design your own poster for peace.

Your creations will be featured in our upcoming exhibition, ‘Pressing Matters’, which will explore the power of posters/printmaking in peace movements.

The activity is part of a celebration marking Salts Works 5th anniversary, as it opens the doors to a brand new community gallery and garden space. Attendees can also enjoy poetry, photography, and album artwork exhibitions, plus a vinyl DJ and cocktail bar.

The event also takes place during Saltaire Festival - so why not make a day of it? Explore the wider programme and discover everything else on offer.

05/09/2026

We're very excited to be featured in the latest issue of Left Cultures!

Bradford-based artist collective Mek Summat discuss their long-standing fascination with pin badges, and how it grew into our 2025 collaborative exhibition, ‘Pins for Peace’.

The exhibition explored the enduring relationship between peace movements and these one-inch works of art, showcasing 31 contemporary artists' giant-scale pin badge designs, each inspired by our collection.

You can pick up a copy of Left Cultures at https://leftcultures.com/

Find out more about the 'Pins for Peace' exhibition here - https://www.peacemuseum.org.uk/pins-for-peace/

03/09/2026

Want to be part of our next special exhibition? Join People Powered Press for a drop-in workshop printing posters on the letterpress, exploring themes of Peace. The posters will be displayed as part of upcoming exhibition 'Pressing Matters'.

The activity is part of a celebration marking Salts Works 5th anniversary, as it opens the doors to a brand new community gallery and garden space. Attendees can also enjoy poetry, photography, and album artwork exhibitions, plus a vinyl DJ and cocktail bar.

The event takes place during Saltaire Festival - so why not make a day of it? Explore the wider programme and discover everything else on offer.

Find out more here - https://www.saltsworks.com/workshops-events/prints-plants-poems-peace

02/09/2026

brb: we’re briefly closing to invest in our future…

From Monday 31 August until mid-November, we’ll be closed whilst we complete our capital works project. Thanks to funding from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, as part of the legacy of UK City of Culture 2025, we’re installing a new heating system and upgrading our gallery space. For the first time, we’ll welcome visitors through the chilly winter months!

First things first: we need to empty the museum and safely move all our objects. (Big job!)

We can’t wait to show you what’s coming when we reopen, but in the meantime, exciting announcements are on the way. Including ways to get involved in our next exhibition.

See you soon 👀

29/08/2026

CND activists didn't need expensive ad campaigns: They had wit, spray paint, and cities full of billboards to repurpose.

This particular billboard was hijacked in Bradford by Johnny and Mike, also known as the Billboard Pirates, in the 1980s 🏴‍☠️

Subvertising or culture jamming like this was a clever strategy. It was cheap, hard to ignore, and it made nuclear anxiety funny and urgent at once. In an era of Cold War tension, "Y-fall out" became shorthand for an entire generation's fear and defiance.

These images are on display as part of our Special Exhibition, ‘Tactical Frivolity: Joy in Resistance’, which finishes this weekend!

You can also pick up your own pair of Johnny’s pants (in sticker form) - available both online and in our museum shop!
www.peacemuseum.org.uk/shop/

28/08/2026

This weekend is the last chance to see our special exhibition, Tactical Frivolity: Joy in Resistance, celebrating the long tradition of joy, humour and absurdity as tools for peaceful protest. Need more convincing? Here's what visitors are saying.

💚'Nice and colourful, very engaging, lovely music, calm atmosphere, nice crafting and clear message.'
💚'Great museum, much needed in the current climate - and always! We'll be back.'
💚'I loved making a sign about Peace.'
💚'Fantastic exhibition!'
💚'We can dress up. I love this.'
💚'My children were happy and engaged with the activities.'
💚'Enaging, informative, colourful, creative and meaningful.'

Ends Sunday 30th Aug | 10am - 4pm | FREE ENTRY
https://www.peacemuseum.org.uk/special-exhibitions/

27/08/2026

On this day in 1981, a group of around 40 women began a 120-mile march from Cardiff to RAF Greenham Common. Along their way, they were hosted by women’s peace and solidarity groups. They arrived after 10 days of walking on 5th September 1981.

What started as a single march became a peace camp for nearly 20 years outside the gates of the base. But the impact extended far beyond those gates. Women who experienced Greenham, even briefly, returned to their communities transformed, carrying the lessons of collective action and sustained activism to wider social justice movements.

Their legacy reminds us that movements aren't just about immediate political change; they're about building people who can build movements.

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Image credits:

The banner shown here was made on route and forms part of our collection of Greenham banners made by Ian and Thalia Campbell, Campbell Archive.

This photo is by Eva Herzog and is featured in the book ‘Women for Peace’ by Four Corners Books

You can find more about these incredible women through the work of Greenham Women 🕸️