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Museum of Tolerance
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The Museum of Tolerance is a multimedia museum in Los Angeles, California, with an associated museum in New York City, designed to examine racism and prejudice in the United States and the world with a strong focus on the history of the Holocaust. It is sponsored by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
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The original museum in Los Angeles, California, opened in 1993 and receives 350,000 visitors annually, about a third of which are school-age children. The museum's most talked-about exhibit is "The Holocaust Section," where visitors are divided into groups to take their own place in some of the events of World War II. The power of these experiences is shared with others in discussion afterwards.
The museum also features the testimonies of Holocaust survivors, often from live volunteers who tell their stories and answer questions.
In addition, the museum features a "Tolerancenter" that discusses issues of prejudice in everyday life, a Multimedia Learning Center, a collection of archives and documents, various temporary exhibits, and an Arts and Lectures Program.
The museum was lampooned in the South Park episode 614 The Death Camp of Tolerance.
A second museum, the New York Tolerance Center, opened in September of 2003. A third museum, to be known as the Center for Human Dignity, is planned to open in Jerusalem by 2007.
- About the Museum of Tolerance from its official website
- The Beit Hashoah—Museum of Tolerance illustrated on-line essay describing a museum visit