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What is the Mobile Museums of Tolerance?
The first-of-its-kind in the United States, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Mobile Museums of Tolerance (MMOT) is a traveling human rights education center utilizing innovative technology and interactive lessons to cultivate tolerance and tools for understanding in communities throughout your state.
The MMOT draws its materials and educational strategies from its namesake, the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles (MOT) which challenges visitors to confront bigotry, anti-Antisemitism and hate, and to understand the Holocaust in both historical and contemporary contexts. Since opening in February 1993, the Museum of Tolerance has received more than 8 million visitors and received the Global Peace and Tolerance Award from the Friends of the United Nations.
The MMOT is a 32-seat, wheelchair-accessible vehicle that serves as a self-contained classroom, delivering a field trip experience to its visitors. Led by experienced educators, the MMOT uses a combination of immersive technology and facilitated dialogue to deliver its workshops.
What does the MMOT offer?
The workshops aim to move students from dialogue to action to have them recognize their own personal responsibility in making a positive difference in the world. The MMOT currently offers five workshops covering the Holocaust, Inclusive History, Civil Rights, and Digital Media Literacy. In addition, the MMOT offers workshops for educators, administrators, and law enforcement professionals.
• The Anne Frank Story
(suitable for grades 5-8)
• The Power of Ordinary People
(suitable for grades 7-12)
• Civil Rights Workshop
(suitable for grades 5-12)
• Combat Hate! A Digital Media Literacy Workshop
(suitable for grades 5-12)
Where does the MMOT visit?
The MMOT conducts workshops and open houses at libraries, state and local fairs, special events, and police departments.