![]() ![]() Houston Street in Dallas’ historic West End district, which will quadruple its current size, accommodate more than double the number of current visitors-half of whom will be school students-and feature a Cinemark XD 250-seat theater, two classrooms, a temperature-controlled library and archive, and a special reflection and memorial area for visitors over three floors. According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), 2016 was the second deadliest year for domestic extremist-related deaths in the United States since 1970-the first year ADL began recording the statistic.Ĭonstruction will commence immediately on the new museum, at 300 N. Given the increase in global, national, and local incidents of terrorist attacks, anti-Semitism, hate speech, and hate crimes, the creation of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum has never been more critical or relevant. Utterly unique among the nation’s 21 Holocuast-related museums, the new Dallas museum will include an expanded examination of the Holocaust with featuring dozens of video testimonies from Dallas area survivors, along with new, in-depth technology-enriched exhibits on other genocides, human rights issues, and American ideals. ![]() The state-of-the-art facility will be named the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. The new museum will open in the summer of 2019. The museum will inspire new generations to advance human rights, combating prejudice, hatred, and indifference. Led by local Holocaust survivors and the Mayor of Dallas, the Dallas Holocaust Museum broke ground today on a new, iconic 51,000 square-foot museum in downtown Dallas. ![]()
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