Holocaust Museum

Friday, October 13
DH & I left the kids with Grandma & Grandpa and took the metro downtown to visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It is definitely not a museum for kids (in fact they recommend only people 11 & up visit). It is definitely a sobering museum to go to, but DH & I had a good visit and it was nice to get a small break from the kids. The main exhibit is 3 full floors of displays about various aspects of history starting with what lead up to the Holocaust and continued through the immediate aftermath. There was a LOT of reading. We were there for about 3 1/2 hours and we were trying to hurry. We could have easily spent a few more hours there. Our biggest complaint about the exhibit is that they didn't have any wrap-up at the end (at least not that we saw) to talk about what we can learn from this and how we can try and prevent something like this from ever happening again. I thought that the whole exhibit was very well done and the areas that contained graphic pictures or video were displayed so that you had to specifically go over and view it (there were also "viewer discretion" signs around these areas).