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FACTS AND FIGURES
VISITORS TO THE MUSEUM
- Total: 28.1 million since the Museum opened in April 1993.
- Demographics: 34% school-aged children; 12% international; approximately 90% non-Jewish.
- Dignitaries: 88 heads of state; more than 3,500 foreign officials from over 132 countries.
VISITORS ONLINE IN 2008
- Visits: 25 million; more than 100 countries visit daily.
- International Visits: 38% international, including 477,000 visits from Muslim-majority countries.
- Foreign Languages: 246,700 visits to Arabic pages; 170,000 visits to Farsi pages.
SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS
- Kimmel Rowan Gallery: State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda
- Wexner Learning Center: From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide (opens April 23); Nuremberg Trials: What Is Justice?; Genocide Emergency – Darfur, Sudan; Eyewitness Testimonies and Family Research: Meed Registry of Survivors
- Gonda Education Center (lower level): A Dangerous Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
- Meyerhoff Auditorium entry (lower level): Abandoned at Srebrenica: Ten Years Later.
- Traveling Exhibitions: Seven communities hosted exhibitions January-March, including new version of Deadly Medicine at the United Nations in New York. Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 – 1945 first Museum exhibition in Maine.
COLLECTIONS AND REFERENCE SERVICES
- Art and artifacts: More than 12,700 objects, averaging 5-6 new items a week.
- Archives and Photo Archives: 49 million pages plus 138 million images recently received from ITS, 80,000 historic photographs and images, 19,000 available on Museum Web site.
- Meed Survivors Registry: 198,704 survivors and their descendents registered.
- Film and Video: More than 995 hours of archival footage; 220 hours of outtakes from groundbreaking film Shoah; 1,000 research requests annually.
- Library and Oral History: 82,500 items in 55 languages; more than 9,000 oral history testimonies, and access to 51,000 oral histories from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.
- Senior Historian’s Division: 234 research requests January-March.
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY
- Regional Education Corps: 30 advanced teachers of the Holocaust in 20 states.
- Museum Teacher Fellows: 246 from every state since the program began in 1996.
- Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies: 339 Fellows-in-Residence from 26 countries since 1994; 465 Campus Outreach Lectures since 2001 in 46 states; 435 Faculty Seminar Participants from 48 states in 27 CAHS seminars from 1999-2000.
ADMINISTRATION, STAFF, AND MEMBERSHIP
- Base Operating Budget: FY 09 – $78.7 million ($47.3m Federal appropriation; $31.4m private donations, with spending to be limited to $26.5 million).
- Staff: Nearly 400 staff; 131 contractors (security and cleaning services).
- Volunteers and Interns: More than 650 volunteers, including 91 Holocaust survivors, donated more than 38,000 hours of service in 2008; 61 interns provided more than 19,000 hours of service.
- Members and Supporters: 175,000
- Regional Development Offices: New York, Boston, Boca Raton, FL, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas.
Quarterly statistics as of 4/1/2009
