WThe grounds of the Palais des Nations contain many fine objects donated by member states of the United Nations, private sponsors and artists. The Celestial Sphere in the Ariana Park of the Palais des Nations is the best-known of these. The huge - over four meter diameter - Celestial Sphere is the chef d'oeuvre of the American sculptor Paul Manship (1885–1966). It was donated in 1939 by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation to what was then the League of Nations building. Known also as the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Sphere of the Palais des Nations it is today a symbol of Geneva International and of Geneva as the centre of dialogue and peace.
WThe Japanese Peace Bell project was founded by Chiyoji Nakagawa, with a bell donated to the United Nations headquarters in New York via the United Nations Association of Japan in June 1954. It is a bonsho of 60 centimeters in diameter, 1 meter in height, and 116 kg in weight. Ceremonies are held at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly in September each year as well as on the International Day of Peace on September 21 where the bell is rung in honour of world peace by the Secretary General, UN executives, and other public figures.
WNon-Violence, also known as The Knotted Gun, is a bronze sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd of an oversized Colt Python .357 Magnum revolver with its muzzle tied in a knot.
WSingle Form is a monumental bronze sculpture by the British artist Barbara Hepworth. It is her largest work, and one of her most prominent public commissions, displayed since 1964 in a circular water feature that forms a traffic island at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City, outside the United Nations Secretariat Building and the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. It is also the largest artwork cast by the Morris Singer foundry.
WSphere Within Sphere is a bronze sculpture by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro.
WThe United Nations Art Collection is a collective group of artworks and historic objects donated as gifts to the United Nations by its member states, associations, or individuals. These artistic treasures and possessions, mostly in the form of “sculptures, paintings, tapestries and mosaics”, are representative “arts of nations” that are contained and exhibited within the confines of the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, United States, and other duty stations, making the UN and its international territories a "fine small museum".
WThe United Nations Security Council mural is an oil painting by Norwegian artist Per Krohg exhibited at the United Nations in New York City since August 22, 1952. The mural, a 16' x 26' foot long canvas located on the United Nations Security Council's east wall, features a central image of a rising phoenix surrounded by images of war and disharmony, near the mural's bottom, and more tranquil images at the top.
WWar and Peace are two paintings made by Brazilian painter Candido Portinari between 1952 and 1956. They are 14.32 metres (47.0 ft) tall and 10.66 metres (35.0 ft) large each. They have been painted for permanent exhibition at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York, as a gift from the Brazilian government.