May-Sep 2025
The Beacon
Peace Picnic
The Peace Museum
The Peace Museum hosted the first of five free gatherings to celebrate peace, protest and community.
We celebrated peace outside The Beacon during a series of special free community picnics hosted by the Peace Museum, the only museum of its type in the UK.
Audiences explored historic protest banners and posters from the museum’s collection, made their own badges and banners, took part in family-friendly activities and creative workshops – and helped to decorate the event space with messages of peace.
The Peace Picnic took place at all four Beacon locations and was inspired by the famous protests against nuclear weapons at RAF Greenham Common in the 1980s, a landmark moment in the history of peace and protest in this country.
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