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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.
Dignitaries: 88 heads of state; more than 3,500 foreign officials from over 132 countries.

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS

Kimmel Rowan Gallery: State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda
Wexner Learning Center: Documenting the Path of American Liberators; The Nuremberg Trials: What Is Justice?; Genocide Emergency—Darfur: Who Will Survive Today?
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 between October and December 2008, including Deadly Medicine in Ottawa, Canada and the Detroit Science Center, (MI).

COLLECTIONS AND REFERENCE SERVICES

Artifacts: More than 12,700 objects.
Archives and Photo Archives: 46 million pages plus 138 million images recently received from ITS, 17,000 requests for archival information in 2008; 80,000 historic images, 18,800 available on Museum Web site.
Meed Survivors Registry: Over 72,000 requests for information about individual victims in 2008.
Film and Video: More than 995 hours of archival footage; 1,000 requests in 2008.
Library and Oral History: 81,500 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: More than 850 research responses in 2008.

EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

Regional Education Corps: 30 advanced teachers of the Holocaust in 20 states.
Museum Teacher Fellows: 246 representing every state.
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies: Fellows-in-Residence: 308 since 1994 from 26 countries; Campus Visiting Lecturers: 452 visits to 44 states and Canada; Faculty Seminars: 411 from 47 states and Canada.

ADMINISTRATION, STAFF, AND MEMBERSHIP

Base Operating Budget: $78.3 million for FY09 ($46.8m Federal pending appropriation by Congress; $31.4m private donations).
Staff: Nearly 400 staff.
Members and Supporters: 182,000
Volunteers and Interns: More than 650 volunteers, including 91 Holocaust survivors, donated more than 25,000 hours of service in 2008; 61 interns provided more than 19,000 hours of service.
Regional Development Offices: New York, Boston, Boca Raton, FL, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas.

Quarterly statistics as of 1/1/2009