Peace Corps at 60:

Inside the Volunteer Experience

Presented by Museum of the Peace Corps Experience and American University Museum

From its inception the Peace Corps has offered an alternative path for advancing peace and promoting friendship among nations. This exhibition brings the world back home through the objects and compelling stories of 30 individuals. They represent a sampling of the nearly 240,000 people who have volunteered their service over the Peace Corps’ 60-year history.

Read the exhibition introduction

Select object to view details and story

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Header image: volunteer Teena Curry (Madagascar 2010-13) riding a rickshaw in Madagascar, August 2013.

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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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