United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Washington Museum

  • Address: 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place South West, Washington, DC 20024-2126
  • Phone: 800 400-9373 tickets.com
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  • Website:www.ushmm.org
Average Rating
5.0
 116+ reviews
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2.0
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5.0
 54+ reviews
Yahoo! Travel
5.0
 61+ reviews
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place South West
Washington, DC 20024-2126

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  • The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country's memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust. -- Chartered by a unanimous Act of Congress in 1980 a... more on MuseumStuff.com
  • Visitors should come prepared for an experience likely to be disturbing and difficult to forget. At the start of the tour, each visitor is given an identity card of a Holocaust victim that matches the visitor's own age and gender. Ordinary reality is skewed through off-center stairways, weird ang... more on Yahoo! Travel
  • The permanent exhibition, The Holocaust, is the Museum's main exhibition and spans three floors. It presents a comprehensive history of the Holocaust through artifacts, photographs, films, oral histories, and filmed eyewitness testimonies.While the museum feels that children ages 11 and older can... more on GoCityKids.com
  • Since it opened in 1993, this museum has been -- and continues to be -- a top draw. If you arrive without a reserved ticket specifying an admission time, you'll have to join the line of folks seeking to get one of the 1,575 day-of-sale tickets the museum makes available each day. The museum opens... more on Frommers
  • Opened in 1993 as a memorial to those who perished at the hands of the Nazis in World War II, the Holocaust Memorial Museum has become one of the most visited museums in the city. Extremely graphic images are kept from immediate view of children. You may order advanced tickets ... more on Weather.com

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5.0
great resources for historians

great resources for hisotrian includes exhibits not only reltated to holocaust but also genocide situations ... A Yahoo! User, a user of Yahoo! Travel. Read full review on Yahoo! Travel

Holocaust Memorial Museum

If there is one museum in Washington that you should visit, this is it. The HMM is one of the finest... judysbook.com, a user of judysbook.com. Read full review on OpenList.com

4.0
Maureen K. 's review

When I visited this museum, I ended up waiting for 3 hours because you get a passport and you get sent ... a user of yelp.com. Read full review on Yelp

5.0
Sobering experience

A good deal of information, and some that was geared to kids. It was definitely worth a trip and I learned a lot. A Yahoo! User, a user of Yahoo! Travel. Read full review on Yahoo! Travel

A memorial that vividly makes its point

This museum is a very effective memorial to the Holocaust and its victims. It does the work of a qua... judysbook.com, a user of judysbook.com. Read full review on OpenList.com

Directions

Metro: Smithsonian

Formerly 15th St. SW; near Independence Ave., just off the Mall

Hours

Daily 10am-5:30pm, staying open until 8pm Tues and Thurs mid-Apr to mid-June

Miscellaneous

  • Admission: Free

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