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Museum of Tolerance

About Museum of Tolerance

The Museum of Tolerance (MOT), also known as Beit HaShoah ("House of the Holocaust"), is a multimedia museum in Los Angeles, California, United States, designed to examine racism and prejudice around the world with a strong focus on the history of the Holocaust. The museum was established in 1993, as the educational arm of human rights organization, the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The museum also deals with atrocities in Cambodia and Latin America, along with issues like bullying and hate crimes. The museum has an associated museum and professional development multi-media training facility in New York City.

The museum is closed on Saturdays, the Jewish day of rest and on all major Jewish holidays and United States public holidays.

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Founded
1993
Annual visitors
350K
350,000

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