The Museum of Tolerance was an emotional and extremely eye-opening experience. The museum itself is filled with heaps of educational history, striving to reach a multitude of humanist issues by taking its visitors on a journey through time. Upon arrival we were instructed to walk up a spiraling white staircase, the walls lined with black and white portraits of holocaust survivors, leading all the way up to the Anne Frank exhibit. We were prompted with a brief introductory film on the Frank family then directed downstairs into a dimly lit hallway. Immediately, I am drawn to the walls that’re constructed with clothing. As you go further into the exhibit, going deeper into Anne’s story, the clothes gradually become dull and drab, then shifting into prisoner uniforms, and ultimately ending with all black clothing. The clothing served as a representation of the drastic changes that occurred in response to the war. The exhibit is a voice and light guided tour, with the voice reading excerpts from Anne’s diary accompanying the several photographs, artifacts, and information posted along the walls. The voice leads us through a door (which was an exact replica of the bookcase that enclosed the Annex) into a small theatre which showed a film that captured Anne’s uniquely positive view on the world within her confined circumstances. After the Anne Frank exhibit we stumbled upon one of the newest exhibits which featured the diverse lives of Maya Angelou, Billy Crystal, and Carlos Santana. Returning back to the first floor, we then walked through an exhibit called Our World Today. The area is filled with screens showing various different news reports, ultimately leading to 2 doorways, one labeled “prejudiced” and the other “unprejudiced”. Visitors are only able to go through the prejudiced door because we have yet to reach an unprejudiced society. This section covered racism, privilege, and the injustice against minority groups all over the world in both the past and present. This exhibit sent the message that “those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it”. We ended our visit with the Holocaust exhibit, lasting about an hour and 15 minutes. Like the Anne exhibit, this too was an interactive voice and light guided tour. The narrated presentation discussed the beginnings and progression of the war and was brought to life with replicas, and actual videos and personal accounts from that time. Before the start of the tour, we are given cards with a photo of either a little boy or girl that lived in that time and a little background information on their lives. At the end of the exhibit we are told to insert the cards into a machine and information is printed out on how they lived and whether our child had or had not survived the war. All the exhibits were exceptionally moving, sending powerful messages and calling for awareness and a change towards a more peaceful society. The overall visit created an emotional and profound impact on myself, and I found it to be extremely refreshing to come to grips with the truth about the past. The museum welcomes all cultures that advocate the values of tolerance and peace.