Category: Past

Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement explores the June 1969 police raid of the Stonewall Inn as the flashpoint that ignited the modern gay rights movement in the United States. In the fifty years since the Stonewall Uprising, America’s LGBTQ+ population has struggled for equal rights and representation under the law. Rise Up shares… Read More

Mandela: Struggle for Freedom traces the history of the fight against apartheid in South Africa, with Nelson Mandela as one of its central figures. With immersive environments, Mandela promotes human rights with a clear message: all people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Nelson Mandela was one of the most famous human rights… Read More

They Shall Be Counted is a gallery of original watercolor paintings and drawings by Erich Lichtblau-Leskly. While imprisoned in Theresienstadt (Terezin) Ghetto during the years of 1942-1945, he artistically depicted the experiences of its residents, poignantly capturing the complications and ironies of the ghetto. Lichtblau-Leskly bravely and clandestinely created these paintings to show the realities of daily… Read More

Based on the New York Times bestselling book and Tumblr page of the same name, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the first-ever museum exhibition focused solely on this judicial icon, whose image graces mugs, t-shirts, posters, and bobbleheads. The exhibit is a vibrant exploration of Justice Ginsburg’s life and… Read More

“I buried my negatives in the ground in order that there should be some record of our tragedy.” — Henryk Ross Imprisoned in Europe’s second-largest ghetto in 1940, Ross was assigned to take official identification photographs for the Nazi-controlled Jewish Administration. The Nazis forbade him from taking any unofficial images, under penalty of death. Yet against… Read More

EXPERIENCE THE STORIES OF THOSE WHOSE LIVES WERE BOUGHT AND SOLD Purchased Lives: The American Slave Trade from 1808 to 1865 illustrates the pain and injustice of the American domestic slave trade, illuminating just how widespread the practice of slavery was in American life, as well as its impact on enslaved families across the country. This… Read More

CHALLENGING THE STATUS QUO THROUGH THE LENS OF A CAMERA  “For me, there’s no difference between photographing a celebrity and a migrant worker. You’re always looking for a picture with emotion, design, and information.” – Steve Schapiro Activists and Icons: The Photographs of Steve Schapiro shows, through powerful documentary photography, that the issues of the civil… Read More

The Last Goodbye is an award-winning virtual reality experience that transports viewers inside the Nazi death camp Majdanek in Poland with Pinchas Gutter, the only member of his family of four to survive the Holocaust. The fully immersive experience enables visitors to virtually walk with Gutter as he travels in life-sized projections of the camp,… Read More

The 75th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising recognizes the largest and symbolically most important Jewish uprising in German-occupied Europe. The exhibition tells the stories of the leaders of the uprising and local survivors who lived through the heroic resistance. The exhibition pays tribute to the 750 Jewish fighters who led the largest resistance effort in… Read More

A boy without a bed.A girl afraid to close her eyes.A child who dreams of when bedtime didn’t bring terror. More than two million children have been forced from their homes by the war in Syria. Refugee children in neighbouring countries or making journeys through Europe show us where they sleep while they await an… Read More