900 people attend exhibition opening
On March 3, Museum of the Peace Corps Experience (MPCE) virtually opened Peace Corps at 60: Inside the Volunteer Experience, its first major exhibit in ten years. Installed at American University
On March 3, Museum of the Peace Corps Experience (MPCE) virtually opened Peace Corps at 60: Inside the Volunteer Experience, its first major exhibit in ten years. Installed at American University
Celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Peace Corps! Please join the virtual opening of the MPCE exhibition, Peace Corps at 60: Inside the Volunteer Experience, at the Katzen Art Center, American University.
Note: Fundraising Update The Museum of the Peace Corps Experience sends a special thank-you to everyone who contributed to our recent fundraising success. A tremendous gift-in-kind comes from American University
Hat’s off to the volunteers who are turning the Museum into a virtual and physical reality. Their contributions of time and talent, quietly lent behind the scenes, are moving dreams into reality.
Beloved dresses, baskets, sandals and even a saddle were carefully packed, carried thousands of miles from places like Chad and Otavalo to the U.S. Shirts woven locally and shoes that
The Museum of the Peace Corps Experience has much to celebrate. Through the efforts of twenty volunteers contributing thousands of hours, we have assembled museum artifacts, collected dozens of stories,
Screenings of “A Towering Task, The Story of the Peace Corps,” hosted by the Museum of the Peace Corps Experience through much of September, attracted viewers from across the country.
A major exhibition celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Peace Corps will be installed at American University (AU) Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C., from January – August, 2021. The exhibition
Register for our upcoming virtual Panel with award-winning Producer/Director Alana DeJoseph and NPCA President Glenn Blumhorst https://museumofthepeacecorpsexperience.org/events/panel-a-towering-task
The Museum of the Peace Corps Experience hosts a screening of “A Towering Task,” the award-winning Peace Corps documentary, viewable now through September 30, 2020. You, your family and friends,
Peace Corps 60th anniversary – 2021– is only a few months away, bringing an opportunity to celebrate the organization, its mission, and the diversity of its volunteers. The Museum of the
Numerous Returned Peace Corps Volunteers are donating objects and writing stories; so many, in fact, that we are seeking more members able to volunteer even a few hours a week in
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“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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