About The Aembu Peace Museum

The Aembu Peace Museum is one of 140 peace museums in the world and is located in the Embu district of Kenya, Africa. The museum began as a cultural heritage research project and led to a discovery of the richness of cultural heritage in the matters of peace building and reconciliation. The museum was officially registered in November 2003 with the ministry of culture and in 2005 the museum established its Peace Garden in the museum compound thanks to community elders on the museum’s board. According to curator Stephen Njiru Njeru, “Building peoples harmonious coexistence and reclaiming the respect of human dignity is our major responsibility”. The Aembu Peace Museum is a stakeholder of the larger community of Peace Museums Heritage Foundation and is part of the seventeen different ethnic peace museums in the foundation.

The Aembu Peace Museum researches, documents and displays peace cultural knowledge. Artifacts, visual art, peace trees and written materials are a few of the ways in which the museum displays information. Additionally the Museum holds education programs in three different schools in the area and initiates peace clubs. The Museum also participates in safeguarding three different sacred sites with the help of elders who are custodians of indigenous peace knowledge. Visitors to the Museum will be given guided tours of the museum and different peace sacred sites in the area.

The Aembu Peace Museum Headquarters P.O. Box 2132 Embu, Kenya-East Africa 60100 Phone: +254721268429 or +254721291866

What's new with The Aembu Peace Museum?

The Museum recently completed a peace culture night in which it addressed the issues involved in peace education Museum Curator Stephen Njiru Njeru said of the peace culture night: "True healing will only be attained through forgiving and reconciliation which has to start with truth and justice." The Museum's beaded peace tree project climaxed on Dec. 11th and 12th. The main theme of the project is to show how people can positively dialogue for harmonious community through embracing cultural diversity. As a result of the beaded peace tree project, elders in the area have established an elders of peace initiative which may soon become a council The peace tree project has brought together 42 ethnic groups in Kenya and established elders for peace initiatives. This December the Museum organized a one day seminar for youth. Speakers were elders over 70 years old with past experience and who are custodians of the Kenyan society. Currently the Museum is funding an event to bring together 20 ethnic groups and plans to have the event finalized soon.

Want to know more? Contact curator Stephen Njiru Njeru at stekaranja@yahoo.com or stekaranja@gmail.com !

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