DAYTON — The Dayton International Peace Museum is moving to a new space in downtown Dayton. The move is a necessary step to help the museum’s future growth, according to Executive Director Kevin Kelly.
The museum will be moving from their current location in the Isaac Pollack House on W. Monument Avenue to a space on the Courthouse Square.
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The new space will include an exhibition space, theatre, studio and multi-purpose classroom.
“Our goal is to move the needle toward fairness and consider ways the museum’s mission of a more equitable, civil and peaceful world can be better realized,” Kelly said in a press release.
A ribbon cutting ceremony will mark the grand opening on September 21, which is the International Day of Peace. The grand opening exhibit will feature a collection of original color photographs of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Dayton International Peace Museum was founded in 2004 by Ralph and Christine Dull, J. Fredrick Arment, Steve Fryburg and Lisa Wolters, nine years after the signing of the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords. The Accords ended war in Bosnia.
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