Give Peace a Chance, or at Least a Museum

Philadelphia has a lot of museums, and it’s getting one more: plans are now under way for the Envision Peace Museum to open in 2014 in Center City; the exact site TBD. If all goes well at that site, the museum will build a much larger space by 2020. As the name implies, the museum is devoted to the theory and practice of peace, which humanity has discovered to be harder to sustainthan war. Pictured: a rendering of the museum by Drexel University architecture student Elena Kerr; the design hasn’t been finalized, however. (And they assure us that the finished product will include significantly fewer ghosts.)

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