Museum Experience

A majority of the exhibit was technology based or was made up entirely of dioramas. It was very interesting to discover that the museum uses a mediated based approach to inform their audience of the events that happened during the time of the Holocaust. To heighten the experience, the museum hands out cards with pictures of Jewish people who were affected by the Holocaust. At the end of the tour, there is a scanner that will reveal the fate of the person on your card. I received Peter Freistadt. Peter Freistadt was born on October 13, 1931, in Bratislavia, Czechoslovakia. With the arrival of anti-Semitic laws in the 1940s, him and his family had to wear the Star of David on their sleeves and a brand. The star branded them for all to see that they are jewish. They were required to hire a non-Jewish man to overlook their family owned business. They were forced to leave their home. Peter Freistadt was one of the lucky few to escape the ghettos, and the horrors that followed. There was one section within the exhibit called "The Hall of Testimony". This is where you can hear the stories of Holocaust survivors. This provides live testimony of the events from the period and semi fills the void that was caused due to the previous lack of artifacts. The Museum honors the survivors in a permanent exhibit titled “Witness to Truth”. The

This website is also part of the official website of the Holocaust Memorial Museum. This website provides statistics about visitors to the museum, visitors online, collections and reference services and special exhibitions. I will use this source to initially prove that many people pay attention to this museum and the history behind it.

I firmly believe that the point of visiting a museum is to educate one on how things once were in the past through its display of artifacts, exhibits, art, cultural objects, etc. Its purpose is to let you imagine what it was like during a time you were not apart of or, in some cases, allow you to look back at a time you were apart of when you were very young. The African-American Museum of Long Island did a great job at presenting some of the many African-American contributions to society. In addition to presenting contributions from the African-American community, the museum was able to show us some of the struggle they were required to overcome as well.

The Dallas Holocaust Museum is the the heart of downtown Dallas and is tucked away on a busy downtown street. This was my first time visiting the museum and it was an amazing experience. The tour started off with a pillar representation of the number of Jews killed during the twelve-year time period known as the Holocaust. I was unaware of the fact that eighty-percent of the Jews killed during the Holocaust happened in the year 1942. The tour opened my eyes to more of the personal accounts instead of just the vast number of deaths during this genocide.

Washington D.C was an outstanding experience. It was a very frigid day in November. When we arrived we were all shivering in our boots. The first museum we went to was the Holocaust Museum. The Museum was very depressing. One of the exhibits that was the most depressing were the shoes of the victims who didn't survive the Holocaust. I didn't remember what the quote but it was deep .

The u.s. Holocaust memorial museum was dedicated in 1993. The museum’s permanent exhibit titled the holocaust is divided into three parts. “Nazi Assault,Final Solution, Last Chapter”. Upon entrance,visitors are given a card with the name of a real person who was persecuted by Nazis or their collaborators. They are guided on a path through a three level exhibit, which contains photos, artifacts, and audio and video footage as well as large scale installations, including a polish railcar that was used to transport jews to concentration camps and visitors are allowed to board. Throughout the exhibit visitors are given a chance to learn about the fate of the individual on their assigned identity card.

The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus is about the horrendous events such as hate crimes that were happening during World War II. The definition of Holocaust from the museum website perspective is “The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews and five million other persons by the Nazi regime and its collaborators” (Holocaust and Survivor Defined.). “The term Holocaust comes from the Greek words of “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burn) which was used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an alter” (History.com). The museum has been around for more than 25 years, in Farmington Hills and has been acknowledged by the Wall Street Journal. The museum does not only reflect on the evil, but also the strength and the courage of the victims affected in this genocide. The purpose of the Holocaust museum is to remember those who have passed away and survived, as well as, to teach and inform others about the events. There were many exhibits to choose from such as, the Jewish heritage, the descent into Nazism and the postwar period. The exhibit I will be focusing on is called, The Camp System.

The Museum of Tolerance showcased a lot on discrimination and violence that has happened not only to the Jews during the world war, but also throughout time in history. It examines racism and prejudice throughout the world and incorporated several topic that was went over in class. The act of racism negatively affected many people, including leaders and people we regard highly in today's society. The main focus starts with how hate rose in Germany and how Hitler came to power, to the violence that came out of these hateful thoughts, and how even to this day there are still hate crime. The Museum of Tolerance included sections that had many boards of text that described the situation at various time. It also had videos, and a whole hour long

Have you heard of the Holocaust Museum located in Washington D.C? It is the largest Holocaust related Museum in all of America and as of June 2015, 38.6 million people have visited the museum, 24% of which are school children. Visiting the museum is very moving, and once you enter the exhibition, it is eerily silent, except for the several videos playing throughout the museum. Planning on heading to the National Holocaust Museum soon? It will be a moving experience, and bringing your kids would help their education along as letting them know what really happened.

Both the previously mentioned Holocaust museums have archives and exhibits that preserve, not the loss caused by the events of the Shoah, but the success and on-going life of the victims. The Jewish Museum in Berlin holds a traditional museum collection that is meant to educate people on ‘the richness and vibrancy of Jewish cultural history’ (Univeristy, 2015). This use of conventional museographic means is capable of representing the loss felt in the Jewish community through remembering and documenting the history and accomplishments of the Jewish

I learned a lot from this trip. It was an unforgettable moment. I loved that Mr. Bierly presented all the pieces then for a person who was the first time visited a museum, I felt that was the best and even for others then already had been in one .I am very sure, it was better and more instructive. I liked that we could have our time to explore more pieces then tried to apply what Mr. Bierly taught in class. One thing that I experienced in the trip, while he was explaining each pieces of art, I was able to understand then apply my knowledge on it. I really enjoyed time in the

The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles educates people about how people were treated during the Holocaust and what prisoners did in the camps, resulting in the deaths of many. One of the many life-changing exhibits that may open they eyes of many was the Anne Frank exhibit. It features the life of an extraordinary young Jewish writer who lived in a Nazi-occupied country in her early teenage years . Anne is one of the most well-known victims of the Holocaust because of the diary that she kept, while she and her family were in hiding. My favorite quote by Anne Frank is, "In spite of everything, I still believe people are good at heart," because it shows that even through the darkest of times, one can still forgive and have hope for a brighter

Before I had a general knowing of what happened during the holocaust and what the Jewish people may have been feeling, but after going through this exhibition it made me think more about all of their harsh realities, and that it wasn’t just adults that suffered but it was a number of children that suffered too. One Jewish child talked in her journal about how having to wear the yellow jewish star made people come up to her and make her do whatever they wanted. She called it a stamp that distinguished her from the rest of the population. Another said it was a sign that made them targets for humiliation and violence.

In conclusion, I will talk about the most interesting place in the entire museum for me, The Temple of Dendur. It’s amazing how beautiful this place is. At the entrance, you encounter

Our first destination on this very hot day was the Eldridge Street Synagogue. I was a little upset that we weren’t able to go to the Tenement Museum because I always wanted to go there, but I guess now I will have to come back with a friend and see it for ourselves! Then again,