Group Tour Reservations
Docent-led tours of the Museum are provided for a maximum of 30 people. Our Museum is currently closed to prepare for our move to our new Museum in Pan Pacific Park. Tours are not available at this time.
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Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust will open a new facility in Pan Pacific Park in the Summer. Our current location on Wilshire Blvd will close on May 2, 2010. Please keep visiting our website for updated information!
Museum Tours
The Museum offers tours to students in 4-12 grades. Our staff is able to tailor each tour to meet specific needs in an age-appropriate manner. Please contact the Education Coordinator to discuss the content of your tour.
Reservations are required if you are planning on bringing a group of over 15 students. Tours and Holocaust Survivors talks will be scheduled for a minimum of 15 visitors. Our facility cannot accommodate groups larger than 60 people.
All Museum tours are FREE. To continue providing free Holocaust education, donations to the Museum are appreciated.
Guided Tours
We can provide a docent-led tour of the Museum for groups of up to 30 people. The tour is facilitated by either a member of the Education team or a trained docent. The tour will provide an overview of the history of the Holocaust by closely examining Holocaust era artifacts and Museum exhibits.
Elementary School (Please allow 2 hours)
For our youngest visitors (4th grade and up), the Museum offers tours of the World that Was exhibit and our famous doll collection Badges of Shame. 5th grade students will also learn about life conditions in the Ghettos. During this tour, students will learn about life before the war, and how the Nazi racial laws impacted the life of Jewish citizens. Students will also be introduced to the concepts of Anti-Semitism, prejudice and persecution. They will explore the topic of spiritual and artistic resistance through the use of art and poetry. Students will then meet a Holocaust Survivor and listen to their testimony. We work with a number of Child Survivors. These are Holocaust Survivors who were children during the war. They all have extensive experience in working with elementary school children and their stories are very age appropriate.
Art Activity Option: Following the tour and the Survivor talk, students can have the option to work on an art activity, using art as a window onto their experience of the Museum and the story it tells. (Please contact the Education Coordinator if interested in this option).
Middle School (Please allow 2.5 hours)
Middle school students participate in a museum tour from the World that Was through the Resistance room. During the tour students learn about how life changed with the rise of Hitler to power, the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws and the establishment of Ghettos. They explore events related to Resistance. Students learn about anti-Semitism, prejudice, persecution and civil rights. Following the tour, students meet a Holocaust Survivor and hear his/her personal testimony.
High School (Please allow 2.5 hours)
High School students receive a full tour of the Museum as well as an intensive discussion with a Survivor. The tour illustrates the main events that took place between 1933 and 1945. Students will learn about deportation to the camps, life in concentration camps, liberation and life after the Holocaust. Students will receive a tour of the camps exhibit and will learn about acts of Resistance in the death camp of Sobibor. Holocaust Survivors speakers who are assigned to High Schools have a wide range of backgrounds. Some survived Auschwitz, the ghettos, or joined the Resistance.
Homeschooled groups (please allow 2.5 hours)
The same tours offered to public and private schools apply to homeschooled groups. In case of mixed-grade groups, please call the Education Coordinator to coordinate a program that is appropriate to all ages and knowledge levels involved.
Self-Guided Tours
We provide the option of taking a self-guided tour through the Museum’s exhibits for groups larger than 30 people. These are the self-guided options offered by the Museum:
Guide-By-Cell
Visitors can take a cell phone tour of the Museum. Students can access information related to the Museum exhibits as well as oral history extracts through their cell phones. Among the informative content, the Guide-By-Cell features first-person testimonies of actual Holocaust Survivors. There is no fee for using the system other than the standard usage fees associated with cellular accounts.
Self-guided activities
Students will be provided with age-appropriate activities that guide them through the Museum exhibits. These activities include questions that encourage close looking, reflection and critical thinking. The Museum currently offers two activities, one for Elementary and Middle School students, and one for High School students. Please contact the Education Coordinator to learn more about this option.
Chaperones
One adult must accompany every 10 children under the age of 18 at all times in the Museum. An adult with a baby or small child is not considered a suitable chaperon.
Donations
All museum tours are FREE. However, the museum survives on the generosity of our community, and donations to the Museum are appreciated. Donations to the Museum on the day of your field trip can be made via cash, check or credit card. Please issue your check to ‘Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust’. The Museum will issue a letter stating that you have made a donation. You can use this letter for tax purposes.
For LAUSD Teachers
If you are a teacher from the Los Angeles Unified School District, please contact the Museum to discuss donations.
Docents
The Museum works with a group of dedicated, knowledgeable and passionate docents. All docents are trained in giving tours to students and the general public. Some of our docents are Holocaust Survivors or Second Generation (children of Holocaust Survivors). They enrich the tour with their own personal and family history.