ABSTRACT
All museums face challenges of financial viability, with some having greater access to resources than others. All peace museums have had to face the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, with societal lockdowns, restrictions on movement, and reduced numbers of visitors. Museums are not immune from the internal power struggles, gender bias, and even bullying, seen throughout their wider society. The International Peace Museum at Dayton, Ohio, is the museum which has navigated the pandemic most successfully. Museums for peace are often counter-cultural within their own society, keeping alive memories that the dominant culture would rather cast aside, be that of Japanese imperialism, racist structural violence, or sexual slavery. Peace museums are at a time of change and transition. LUM is the most recent example of how a number of museums for peace have been censored or shut down by conservative and ultranationalist governments, parties, and protest groups.
