New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum

New Mexico Holocaust and Intolerance Museum

The New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was founded in 2001 by Holocaust survivor Werner Gellert and his wife, Frances Gellert, to educate people about the Holocaust as well as other genocides and forms of bullying that have affected people around the world.

In addition to the general public, the museum provides tours for schoolchildren, and offers training for teachers and school administrators about intolerance and hate prevention, and hosts monthly discussion groups.

Due to the sensitive and graphic nature of the exhibits, it has been recommended not to bring children under the age of 11 to the exhibit.

Their focus is not limited to one religion, culture, geographic area, or time.

In 2008, the museum was featured in the pilot episode of the TV show Breaking Bad, where it served as a clothing store. During that scene, Walter White attacks a group of bullies who are teasing his disabled son.

Exhibits

Exhibits are largely the effort of Museum volunteers, and are subject to change.

Holocaust exhibits have included:

• Art of the Holocaust
• The liberation of Buchenwald
• Saving Bulgarian Jews
• Child slave labor
• The survivors of Dachau
• The rescue of the Danish Jews
• Flossenbürg slave labor
• Replica concentration camp gate
• Medical Experimentation in Nazi Germany
• Nazi memorabilia
• The Nuremberg Trials
• Photographs of rescued prisoners
• Rescuer's exhibit
• Sonia's legacy (the art of Sonja Fischerova, killed at Auschwitz on May 18, 1944)
• Holocaust stamps

Other exhibits have included:

• Media coverage of hate and intolerance
• Armenian genocide
• Greek genocide
• Native American cultural genocide
• 'Tolerated' genocide in Rwanda

Vandalism

In July 2020, the window of the museum was smashed.

External links

• Official website