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UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM PRESS KIT

FACTS AND FIGURES

VISITORS TO THE MUSEUM

• Total: 29.6 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: More than 30 million – a 20% increase over 2008; more than 100 countries visit daily.
• International Visits: 55% international, including 478,000 visits from Muslim-majority countries.
• Foreign Languages: More than half a million views of Arabic pages – a 40% increase over 2008; a quarter of a million views of Farsi pages – an 18% increase over 2008.

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; The Nuremberg Trials; 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: 16 communities hosted exhibitions between January and September, including two states that have never had USHMM exhibitions: Wyoming and Maine.

COLLECTIONS AND REFERENCE SERVICES

• Art and artifacts: More than 12,820 objects, averaging 5-6 new items a week.
• Archives and Photo Archives: 49 million pages plus 138 million images recently received from the International Tracing Service, 82,000 historic photographs and images, 20,000 available on Museum Web site.
• Meed Survivors Registry: 199,473 survivors and their descendents registered.
• Film and Video: More than 1,000 hours of archival footage; 220 hours of outtakes from groundbreaking film Shoah; 1,000 research requests annually.
• Library and Oral History: 84,600 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: 669 research requests January-September.

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: 363 Fellows-in-Residence from 27 countries since 1994; 489 Campus Outreach Lectures since 2001 in 47 states; 473 Faculty Seminar Participants from 48 states in 29 seminars since its inception in 1999.

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; 125 contractors (security and cleaning services).
• Volunteers and Interns: More than 650 volunteers, including 95 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: 170,000
• Regional Development Offices: New York, Boston, Boca Raton, FL, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas.

Quarterly statistics as of 10/1/2009

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