Description:
The Museum of Tolerance is designed to expose prejudices, bigotry, and inhumanity while teaching racial and cultural tolerance. Since its opening in 1993, it's hosted 4 million visitors from around the world, including King Hussein of Jordan and the Dalai Lama. It's located in the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an institute founded by the legendary Nazi hunter. While the Holocaust figures prominently here, this is not a Jewish museum -- it's an academy that broadly campaigns for a live-and-let-live world. Tolerance is an abstract idea that's hard to display, so most of this $50-million museum's exhibits are high-tech and conceptual in nature. Fast-paced interactive displays are designed to touch the heart as well as the mind, and engage everyone from heads of state to the MTV generation.
- © Frommer's 2012
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GREEDY 4 PROFIT-DON'T BELIEVE THEIR OWN TEACHINGS
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This museum is about stopping hate & racism but I got no such feeling after today. I tried to get in under the calworks program with my brother, every other museum in LA let...
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- posted on 10.05.11
Awards:
Frommer's
- Recommended 2009
- Recommended 2010
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- visit website
- tel: 310/553-8403
- send email
Address:
- 9786 W. Pico Blvd
- At Roxbury Dr
- Los Angeles, CA 90212
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- Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sun 11am-5pm
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- No Sweat
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