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US Holocaust Memorial Museum Description
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is devoted to the documentation and display of Holocaust related material. The museum exhibitions, research and information programs recognize the millions of Jews, Roma and Sinti, people with disabilities, Poles, homosexuals, political dissidents and others killed in the Holocaust. It opened in 1993.

The permanent exhibition is called "The Holocaust." In it artifacts, photographs, films, and eyewitness testimonies are presented over three floors of exhibition space. The area is divided up into chronological sections. The first deals with life in the early 1930's before the rise of the Nazis. The second covers the growth of Nazi power and subsequent tyranny and genocide. Finally, the last section
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Hobbies & Activities category: Jewish site or artifact collection;  Historical museum
Address
Us Holocaust Memorial Council
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW
Washington, DC 20024-2126
United States
Map US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Phone 1 (202) 488-0400 / 6
http://www.ushmm.org
Hours
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Open10:0010:0010:0010:0010:0010:0010:00
Closed17:3017:3017:3017:3017:3017:3017:30
Always closed on:
Yom Kippur - Jewish
Christmas - Christian (December 25)
Cost
FREE
Tips
The permanent exhibition requires a timed pass; not recommend for children under 11.
No photography allowed in the exhibitions.
No eating, drinking, smoking or audio/video recording is permitted in the Museum.
Parking
None
Disabled
Full facilities for persons with disabilities.
Facilities
Gift shop
Restaurant or food service
Transit
Metro: Smitsonian
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