This page lists all public programs today at the Museum, as well as suggestions of how to budget your time, recommendations for families, and the general rules and hours of the Museum building. The page is subject to change. You can pick up a copy of this page on the day of your visit at the Information Desk.
In From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide, explore modern-day cases of genocide and learn ways to confront and prevent on-going threats (Wexner Center, Second Floor).
Visit the exhibition Remember the Children: Daniel's Story, which tells the story of the Holocaust as witnessed by a Jewish boy named Daniel who lived in Germany (First Floor).
View the Children's Tile Wall (also known as the Wall of Remembrance), a collection of more than 3,000 tiles painted by American schoolchildren (Lower Level), and light a candle in memory of Holocaust victims in the Hall of Remembrance (Second Floor).
Also, examine the menace of anti-Semitism in the exhibition A Dangerous Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which also includes Antisemitism, a 13-minute film that describes the history of persecution directed at Jews (Lower Level).
Explore the Permanent Exhibition, a chronological presentation of Holocaust history from 1933 – 1945. The exhibition spans three floors and uses more than 900 artifacts, 70 video monitors, historic film footage, and eyewitness testimonies (Passes Required March through August).
Please Note: Assistive listening in the Permanent Exhibition is compatible with T-coil equipped hearing aids. Receivers with headsets for other visitors who require assistive listening may be checked out at the coat check.
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. During the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.
All those entering the Museum buildings must pass through metal detectors and have their belongings scanned. Eating, drinking, smoking, and video and audio recording are not permitted. Photography is not permitted in the exhibitions, and flash photography is not permitted in the Hall of Remembrance. Private use of Museum classrooms, theaters and meeting spaces by outside groups or organizations is prohibited. Please keep belongings with you at all times. The Museum is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The Museum Café close at 4:30 p.m. The entrance to the Permanent Exhibition closes at 4:30 p.m. All other exhibitions and the Museum Shop close at 5:20 p.m.
