October 16, 2025 | 7:00–8:30 PM EDT | Online Event Join the Museum of the Peace Corps Experience for a special online celebration of the new exhibition Peace by Design:
October 4, 2025 – January 6, 2026 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C. The Museum of the Peace Corps Experience (MPCE) is proud to present Peace by Design:
The audience learns more about the history of Yerba Mate and its cultural, social and economic significance in Paraguay and Argentina, with a display of thermos and Yerba Mate drinking
Margaret Loomis, Peru 1962 – 1964. Our assignment was to deliver and establish “little libraries” to the indigenous communities in the Peruvian Sierra
Robin Varnum, Afghanistan 1971-1973. When Girls Could Attend School in Afghanistan
Chris Foreman, Korea, 1972- 1974. The day a teacher stood up to a schoolhouse bully.
Tina Thuermer, Zaire 1973 – 1975. Zaire trainees held captive by Idi Amin for three days.
Philip Smith, Afghanistan 1970-1972. “I’m a nobody from a nowhere town…”
Deborah Manget, St Lucia 1978 to 1979. Eight-year-old Michel woke me on Saturday mornings making music by drumming on old pots – twenty years later he was a reggae star.
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who identify as a member of a non-majority group in the USA talk about their unique Peace Corps experiences.
The future is bright! The Museum is actively exploring space options in Washington, D.C. close to the Peace Corps Park site at the foot of Capitol Hill. We imagine an experience wherein visitors explore interactive exhibits on peace education, foreign cultures, and the history of Peace Corps at the Museum paired with a park visit that fosters reflection and community. Join the Museum’s 40+ volunteers and hundreds of supporters in bringing this vision to life.
Museum of the Peace Corps Experience
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Oregon City, OR 97045
USA
“For every young American who participates in the Peace Corps—who works in a foreign land—will know that he or she is sharing in the great common task of bringing to man that decent way of life, which is the foundation of freedom and a condition of peace.”
– President John F. Kennedy, March 1, 1961
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