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OPENING SUMMER 2024
The Peacemakers Museum will focus on how the North of Ireland moved from decades of violent conflict to the peace we all enjoy and maintain today.
Location...
The Peacemakers Museum is located in the famous Bogside area of Derry in the North of Ireland. The small working class area witnessed some of the key events of the conflict including the Battle of the Bogside and Bloody Sunday.
Road to peace...
The museum explores the period from August 1972 to May 2007 to explain how the conflict evolved into the peace process and the impact of both on the local area. The museum uses artefacts, oral history, archive footage, interactive features and unique displays to explain how the Agreement was reached, its implementation and its potential implications for the future of the island. It also features the key role played by three Bogsiders – John Hume, Martin McGuinness and Mitchel McLaughlin – in creating the conditions that have led to the peace we all enjoy today. All three men played a key role in developing the 1998 Good Friday Agreement which provided a political template for resolving the conflict and a future which could be determined on the principle of consent.
A story of resilience......
The museum also explores the role played by local female activists and young people in local political and social campaigns, music, sport, culture and more. The Peacemakers museum details how local people resiliently endured decades of conflict until the peace was won.
The Gasyard site
The museum is housed in the Gasyard Community Centre which is based on the site of the former city Gasworks
Museum Packages
The Peacemakers Museum
Gasyard Centre, 128 Lecky Road
Derry • BT48 6NP • N Ireland
T: +44 (0)28 7126 2812
E: info@peacemakersmuseumderry.com
Prices:
Adult: £8 p/p • Concession: £7 p/p • Group rate: £7 p/p
Open:
Mon-Fri: 9.30am-5pm (All year round)
Sat: 10am-4pm
Sun: 10am-4pm (Apr-Sept)