65 Objects Tell 65 Years: Peace Corps History Exhibition Opens November 10 at Washington's Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, on View Through March 7, 2027 (United States)
WASHINGTON — 65 Objects That Changed the World, a major exhibition presented by the Museum of the Peace Corps Experience, opens on November 10, 2026, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. The exhibition is free and remains on view through March 7, 2027. According to the museum's official press release, the exhibition explores 65 years of Peace Corps history through 65 objects, photographs, oral histories and first-person accounts — the ordinary things volunteers carried, used, made, exchanged, saved and brought home, presented as witnesses to encounters between Americans and communities around the world.
Zack Klim, the museum's Executive Director and Chief Curator, said: "We often tell history through institutions, policies, wars, and political leaders, but societies are also changed through relationships. Each object tells us a story of citizen diplomacy – who met whom, what they learned from one another, what was difficult or unexpected, and what each person carried forward from that encounter." He added: "Peace Corps history is American history, but it is a part of our history that Americans could never have written alone."
The exhibition opens as the Peace Corps marks its 65th anniversary and the United States commemorates its 250th, and presents stories of friendship and service alongside identity and belonging, misunderstanding and discovery. During its four-month run, the museum will present conversations, storytelling, film and educational programs featuring returned Peace Corps volunteers, artists, scholars and community partners. Following its Washington presentation, the museum plans to develop the exhibition as a traveling show for museums, universities and communities across the United States beginning in 2027. The museum is an independent nonprofit organization and is not part of the U.S. Peace Corps, a federal agency. The release closes with President John F. Kennedy's March 1, 1961 words on the Peace Corps, quoted as the exhibition's epigraph.
Source: Museum of the Peace Corps Experience
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Photo: 图：和平队志愿者宣誓就职仪式（资料图）。Wikimedia Commons，美国驻圭亚那大使馆，公有领域。/ Peace Corps volunteers at a swearing-in ceremony (file photo). Wikimedia Commons, U.S. Embassy Guyana, public domain.
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