Burg Schlaining

It's located in Austria. It accommodates ASPR- a Peacekeeping and peacebuilding training institute. Its castle was a war architecture that was later transformed to peace architecture.

The history of humanity is a constant up and down of wars and peace. The European Museum of Peace wants to introduce you to this history of war and peace, causes and conditions of peace, violence and peace, for which Schlaining Castle and the European Peace University are the ideal setting. Nevertheless, war is not our destiny, humanity is not condemned to eternal war. But peace does not come by itself, as the development of the European Union shows. One hundred years ago, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Alfred Nobel wrote: "If you want peace, you must prepare peace." This is also the guiding principle of the Peace Museum, which aims to make a small contribution to the emergence of the global peace consciousness with its scientific, artistic and pedagogical concept. Another principle of the museum is that peace is more than the absence of violence and war. Because the emergency of life is not the war, but the peace in which we all have to prove ourselves. Positive peace therefore always has something to do with freedom and human rights, with social justice and the preservation of the natural environment. Therefore, the European Museum of Peace assumes a comprehensive understanding of peace, encompassing violence and its prevention, the environment and its preservation, conflicts and their processing, and peace and its development.

This Castle is home to the Austrian Peace Studies Centre. It also contains a museum which is open to the public between Palm Sunday and end of October. It is a little off the usual tourist map however, if you have the time it's worth the visit. The town is small and quiet. On Mondays most cafes are closed

Majestic Fort with thick walls and a nice tower, from where you can see Hungary

Slice of history, building in good conditions, exhibitors could have cover wider range of the history.

very old castle interested place to visit

A beautiful place, in the hart of a charming nature. You can feel peace, quite and the voice of the nature. I really enjoyed my time there, and the museum is beautiful place, it is only need to be developed from the services side like to buy more things as a souvenir. The staff is really nice and kind.

Beautiful castle, witnessing long history of the area. Very few visitors, due to the COVID posed limitations.