Your Day at the Museum

The genocide of Europe’s Jews and the persecution and murder of additional groups by Nazi Germany and its collaborators from 1933 to 1945. Appropriate for ages 11 and older.

Access via elevators on the First Floor | Average visit 90 minutes

The Holocaust from a child’s point of view. Appropriate for ages 8 and older.

First Floor | Average visit 20 minutes

Experience this new installation about the long history of violent antisemitism. Hatred of Jews—antisemitism—made the Holocaust possible. But violent antisemitism started long before the Nazis and continues to be a threat today. Antisemitism targets Jewish people, but affects all of us.

Main Floor | Average visit 10 minutes

This 13-minute film traces Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party’s ascent to power in Germany, paving the way for the Holocaust and World War II. Daily in the Museum.

Theater in Permanent Exhibition, Fourth Floor | 13 minutes

This 13-minute film introduces the history of antisemitism from its origins in the days of the early Christian church until the era of the Holocaust in the mid-20th century. It raises questions about why Jews have been targeted throughout history and how antisemitism offered fertile ground to the Nazis. Daily at the Museum.

Theater in Permanent Exhibition, Fourth Floor | 13 minutes

Eyewitness to History enables audiences to hear firsthand testimony from Holocaust survivors. The films currently showing in the Museum feature testimony from Estelle Laughlin, who was forced into the Warsaw ghetto, Alfred Münzer, who was hidden in the Netherlands, and Theodora Klayman, who was protected in Croatia. All three volunteer at the Museum.

Situated in the hexagonal structure that overlooks Eisenhower Plaza, the Hall of Remembrance is a simple, solemn space designed for public ceremonies and individual reflection. Visitors may light memorial candles in the Hall.

Second Floor

Located on the Museum’s Lower Level, this tile wall honors the 1.5 million children killed during the Holocaust. Children ages 6 to 16 recorded their impressions of the Holocaust onto the tiles used to create the memorial.

Concourse/Lower Level

The Museum offers a number of different resources for conducting research about victims and survivors of Nazi persecution.

Second Floor | Open Sunday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., except federal holidays and Yom Kippur