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CHECK BACK SOON!Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust’s interactive exhibits use technology in an unprecedented way. The new Museum strategy showcases the content and artifacts, relying on their power to tell the story of the Holocaust. Technology itself supports and enhances the overall museum experience.
The World That Was Interactive Table
Located in the first room, The World That Was, a large computer touch-screen table depicts the intertwined and rich Jewish community existing before the Holocaust. Visitors can explore and touch digital artifacts and learn about the lives of European Jews before the Holocaust. As they do, the artifacts organize themselves according to the different parts of a community, including: education, religion, culture, sports, children, etc. For example, as a visitor touches a specific image of a Jewish family other images relating to that family life are shown.
The artifacts available through the table include photographs, video segments, and text. When audio accompanies a video the audio can be dialed up on the audio guide players distributed to visitors.
Interactive Concentration Camp Monitors
In the combined Deportation & Extermination and Labor/Concentration/Death Camps rooms, individual touch monitors will allow visitors to learn about 18 different concentration camps. Each display will allow visitors to discover general information relating to each camp. This information will include a camp’s location, images of its architecture itself, and material depicting life in each camp. Some of the displays will feature stories form survivors of the specific camp. When not used by visitors, the monitors will work in concert with each other to present the magnitude of the atrocities committed in the camps.
Digital Jukeboxes
Throughout the Museum a number of touch-screen jukeboxes will allow visitors to listen to music, poetry and audio from before, during and after the Holocaust. Visitors will be able to explore this content and learn about the history relating to each audio file.
Audio Guide
The visitor Audio Guide ties together all of the physical and digital content throughout the Museum. Each visitor will be given an Audio Guide player. This personal audio player will enable each visitor to explore various images and artifacts throughout the Museum in greater depth. Visitors will be able to call up audio tracks associated with specific images, artifacts or video displays throughout the Museum.
As a supplement to the Museum experience, visitors will be able to follow the stories of individuals affected by the Holocaust. Printed guides available at the reception desk will introduce visitors to each actual victim and direct visitors to the specific artifacts in the Museum relating to that person’s story. This multimedia experience allows visitors to learn about the Holocaust through the eyes of an individual that lived through it.
Survivor Testimonial Wall
The Survivor Testimonial Wall, a dramatic array of 85 video screens planned for the final room of the Museum tour, will showcase the unbelievable stories from actual Holocaust survivors. Part monument and part informational presentation, this new will allow visitors the unprecedented ability to watch recorded interviews with different survivors.
Museum Website
This website is also an integral component to the new experience strategy of the Museum. A visitor’s Museum experience begins even before he or she arrives. Visitors can learn about the Museum and the Holocaust, and connect to our social networking links. Teachers can plan visits, donors can support the Museum, the Museum can promote its latest news and information – and much more. The new Museum website matches the overall look and feel of the Museum architecture as well as the exhibits and will be the go to place for all things related to the Museum. And this is only the beginning. In the future, the Museum plans to allow all content in its digital archive to be accessible by the general public.