Purpose
To preserve the history, processes, and results related to the acquisition of peace, liberty, strengthening of democracy, social justice and socio-economic development, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean.
To strengthen and promote the peace in Costa Rica and promote democracy, liberty and respect for human rights in the peoples of America.Goals
To form a collection of objects, testimonies, written documents, photographs, film clips, pictures and items of any other medium, that document and facilitate the study, comprehension, education and diffusion of the museum's purposes.
To maintain a not-for-profit museum, open to the public, with permanent and temporary expositions at the service of society and its development, where the museum's collection would be kept, studied, updated and exhibited.Objectives
- Form collections of objects, testimonies, written documents, photographs, film clips, pictures and items of any other medium related to the museum's purposes.
- Carry out interpretive studies of the museum's collections for the purpose of exhibitions and publications.
- Carry out conservation and restoration work on the collections, as well as undertaking such registers, catalogues and other legal measures that will assure the preservation of the museum's collections.
- Carry out education and dissemination work through guided tours, presentations, courses, workshops, conferences, and multimedia presentations, among other activities, which tend to shape all types of public based on the museum's purposes.
- Publish systematically documents related to the museum's collections and expositions in the form of books, brochures, posters, videocassettes, CD-ROM and any other medium. Maintain a site on the World Wide Web that will publicize the museum's existence, its programs, activities and publications, as well as provide virtual expositions of the museum's collections.
- Establish exchange programs for museum publications with other museums, libraries, archives and other institutions with similar interests.
- Mount exhibitions of the museum's collections, permanent, temporary, itinerant and interactive in nature, in a scientific and didactic way that meet the highest museum standards. Receive and send temporary and itinerant expositions in accordance with national and international laws and regulations.
Purpose Statement
The Museum for Peace was conceived with the intention that it should serve as an agent for change and a means for reflection on the transformation of Central American society. It should encourage the attitudes and behaviour necessary to strengthen peace and democracy throughout the region.
The Museum for Peace will become a profound personal experience. It shall force visitors to reflect upon their own attitudes and will encourage them to seek ways in which they may integrate themselves into the process towards peace.
The Museum for Peace building has two exhibition areas. Permanent works are housed on the second floor of the building, in a hall measuring more than 525 square meters, while the hall for temporary exhibits is on the first floor, within an area measuring 275 square meters.
Permanent Exhibition
In keeping with the aims of the museum, the permanent exhibition will be dedicated to preserving the history of the peace processes, including: freedom, the enforcement of democracy, social justice, and the socio-economic development of the Central American region.
The display will span the years 1850 to the present. In order to facilitate its understanding it has been divided into four stages:
A History of Centuries (1850-1950)Each of the four sections of the museum will present its' themes using the most advanced explanatory communications techniques available.
Audio-visual mediums and interactive multimedia systems will allow the visitor to travel through the most relevant events of each of these periods. Methods such as the use of Touch Screens will allow for the establishment of a dialogue pertaining to the history, people and events of interest to each visitor.
The contents of each exposition will be presented in two languages (Spanish and English), and translations into other languages (Portuguese, French and German) will be available through the means of acoustic guides.
Each historical situation will be presented through sensory exhibits appropriate to the historical situation in question. These exhibits, produced through the use of ample photographic murals, video walls, symbolic objects and appropriate proportions and colour schemes, will help the visitor to sense the differences between oppression, violence, the search for peace and the benefits that this peace will bring.
The audiovisual hall will be located in the permanent exhibit area. In it will take place various screenings, conferences, presentations and educational and transmissional activities.
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