Dallas Holocaust Museum

Dallas Holocaust Museum - darkometer rating : 6 - Another Holocaust Museum in the USA , this one is in Dallas , Texas. It's a comparatively small affair, but well laid-out and quite unusual in its general approach, namely focusing on a single day in April 1943 at three different locations (or four if you count the extra section about Dallas on that same day). In choosing this approach the museum's emphasis is rather on reactions to the Holocaust than on the history of the Holocaust as such. > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos More background info: see under Holocaust in general, and cf. especially US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. , as well as the various entries for authentic sites in Germany , Poland and other countries where the Holocaust actually took place. The Dallas Holocaust Museum uses as its alternate name the designation Center for Education and Tolerance (somewhat echoing the name of the Museum of Tolerance in LA ). This is an indication of the primary function this institution aims to fulfil, and indeed the largest number of visitors are school groups/students. The museum claims it hosted 40,000 students in 2011 – plus an additional 15,000 walk-in visitors. Founded in 1984, the present museum moved to its current location in 2005 … but there are plans to move it to a new purpose-built larger facility in the future. What there is to see: not especially much, given the severe space limitations, but that space is used very well and the main exhibition well designed. Individual visitors are given an audio guide at the reception desk, and this greatly enhances the displays of documents and artefacts.