United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Architect
- James Ingo Freed
- Year
- 1993
- City
- Washington, DC
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, designed by James Ingo Freed of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, opened in Washington on April 22, 1993, as the nation's official memorial and museum for the history of the Holocaust. It was created to help confront hatred, prevent genocide, promote human dignity, and strengthen democracy, through exhibitions, survivor testimony, and archival collections.
the architect
James Ingo Freed was a partner at Pei Cobb Freed & Partners; this museum is his best-known Washington commission.
significance
By 2024, the museum had received nearly 50 million visitors since opening, including more than 11 million schoolchildren, 120 heads of state, and more than 3,500 foreign officials from over 132 countries. In 2008 it operated on a budget of $120.6 million with a staff of about 400. Fewer than 10 percent of visitors are Jewish.
nearby
- Sidney R. Yates Federal Building
- Department of Agriculture South Building
- Jamie L. Whitten Building
- U.S. Government Central Heating Plant
- Washington Monument
- U.S. Department of Agriculture Cotton Annex