The North Korea Peace Museum is in the building constructed to house the signing of the Korean War Armistice Agreement on 27 July 1953.

[1] It is located approximately 1.2 kilometres (3⁄4 mi) northwest of the Joint Security Area (JSA), in the northern half of the Demilitarized Zone.

[2] The weapons used to kill U.S. Army Captain Arthur Bonifas and Lieutenant Mark Barrett in the axe murder incident of 1976 are housed within the museum.

At the time of the signing of the armistice, a copy of Pablo Picasso's Dove was hanging inside the building.

Because Picasso was a communist, the Americans considered it a symbol of communism, and it was covered up.