65件物品讲述65年:和平队历史特展11月10日在华盛顿马丁·路德·金纪念图书馆开幕,展至2027年3月7日

华盛顿—和平队体验博物馆(Museum of the Peace Corps Experience)主办的特展《改变世界的65件物品》(65 Objects That Changed the World)将于2026年11月10日在华盛顿特区马丁·路德·金纪念图书馆开幕,免费向公众开放,展期至2027年3月7日。据博物馆发布的官方新闻稿,展览以65件物品、照片、口述历史与第一人称叙述,呈现和平队65年的历史—志愿者们当年带走、使用、制作、交换、保存并带回的日常物品,成为跨文化相遇的见证。
博物馆执行主任兼首席策展人扎克·克利姆表示:「我们常通过机构、政策、战争与政治领袖讲述历史,但社会同样通过人与人之间的关系被改变。每件物品都讲述一个公民外交的故事—谁与谁相遇、他们彼此学到了什么、什么出乎意料、以及每个人从这次相遇中带走了什么。」他并指出:「和平队的历史是美国历史的一部分,但这是美国人永远无法独自书写的一段历史。」
展览开幕之年适逢和平队成立65周年与美国建国250周年,展览将和平队历史置于美国身份认同的讨论之中,呈现友谊与服务、身份与归属、误解与发现等主题。展期内博物馆将举办由归国志愿者、艺术家、学者与社区伙伴参与的对谈、故事讲述、电影与教育活动。华盛顿展出结束后,博物馆计划自2027年起将该展开发为巡回展,前往全美各地的博物馆、大学与社区。该馆是一家独立的非营利组织,与美国联邦机构和平队无隶属关系。新闻稿并引述约翰·F·肯尼迪总统1961年3月1日关于和平队的话作为展览题记。
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.
来源:和平队体验博物馆
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图片来源: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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