Museum

Beth Shalom (lit. "House of Peace") is a Holocaust memorial centre near Laxton in Nottinghamshire in England. Opened in 1995, it is England's only dedicated Holocaust museum, though there is also a permanent exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum. The centre was founded by brothers James and Stephen Smith following a 1991 visit to Israel during which a trip to Yad Vashem changed the way they looked at history and the Holocaust.

Thousands of admirers of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini visit his tiny home town every year. Now, the town's center-leftist mayor Giorgio Frassineti wants to open a museum of fascism on the main square, not as an homage to their cause but as a way to contain it. Frassineti wants to overhaul the town's crumbling 1937 House of Fascism, an imposing marble-and-brick edifice with a balcony once used for delivering speeches to cheering crowds, for a Museum of Fascism.

The Museum was opened in 2003 inside a 18th century complex. The same building is also home to the National Film Archives of the Italian Resistance, the Piedmont Institute for History of the Italian Resistance and Contemporary Society and the Primo Levi International Study Center. The permanent display - "Turin 1938 – 1948.

The Holocaust Memorial Center for the Jews of Macedonia (Macedonian: Меморијален центар на холокаустот на Евреите од Македонија, Memorijalen centar na holokaustot na Evreite od Makedonija; Ladino: Sentro Memorial del Holokausto de los Djudios de la Makedonia) is a memorial to the holocaust of the 7,148 Jews from North Macedonia and the history of the Jews in the Balkans, located in Skopje, the capital city of North Macedonia.

The museum presents the experiences of children who lived through the war in Bosnia, told through objects, video testimonies, and excerpts from oral histories. The 2018 Council of Europe Museum Prize – one of the most prestigious awards in the museum industry – has been awarded to the War Childhood Museum as part of the European Museum of the Year Awards. The museum’s collections feature diaries, toys, photographs, items of clothing, and a variety of other objects donated by war survivors.

A family of five museums recording and showcasing experiences of modern conflict. Some of those experiences paint a picture of everyday life in wartime, others give us a glimpse of something exceptional. All of them help us to explore the causes of war and its impact on people’s lives.

War belongs in the museum. That is the motto of the War Museum Overloon. The War Museum Overloon presents the history of the Second World War. Here you see how it can be that in five years’ time more than fifty million people lost their lives, but also how the oppressed people resourcefully coped with restrictions and shortages. There is attention to the opposition, but also to the persecution.

The Documentation Centre on the Bombing of Gernika, part of the Gernika Peace Museum Foundation, was created following an initiative by the Gernika-Lumo Town Hall in 1997, which set out to draw up an inventory of all written, graphic and audiovisual material available worldwide (in libraries, archives, film libraries...) in relation to the bombing of Gernika on 26th April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War.

The Kobarid is Slovenia's best antiwar museum, dedicated to the memory of those who lost their lives in the fierce battle of Caporetto (Kobarid), which took place near this peaceful town, now a center for adventure activities.

The famous museum about the findings during the First World War received the highest national certificate for museums, the Council of Europe Museum Prize and was nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award.

From 1975 to 2014, its collection mainly focused on World War I and World War II. It was refurbished in 2015, and its collections now include exhibits ranging from the Bronze Age to 2004.