Memory and Tolerance Museum — Attraction in Mexico City

If you never opened a history book in your life you can maybe learn something about what humanity is and has been able to do, but our visit to this museum was, lets say, very underwhelming.. We asked the staff twice if this museum was ok to enter with children, they said "yes sure!" twice, well after 30 seconds in the first room I realized it was not at all. Dont get me wrong, I'm of austrian origin and we learned every horrible detail of the holocaust in almost every history lesson we had, and trust me I know a lot more then I would like about that period. But even our teachers understood when was the appropriate time for this topic. That's about that. If this museum was a movie, it would be 18+ I rushed for the exit with my little girl but even in that short amount of time passing from room to room I recognized, that it was almost exclusively about the jewish part of the holocaust (6 out of 17 million civilian people the germans killed in camps and elsewhere) as if this was the only thing to remember? At the end there are some footnotes about other "not so important genocides" but nothing about the 100 Million people in India who had to die because of the british colonialists, no word about belgian congo, german south west africa, iraq and strangely above all: the americas! where the indigenous population was almost completely wiped from the face of the earth by the european colonialists and we are talking about hundreds of millions of innocent people here! In a country where the indigenous population still suffers from that time of those incredible horrors I expected a more subtle and fair approach to this very! sensible topic, especially in times where there is a genocide happening in Palestine as we speak, ironically partly executed by the descendants of that very holocaust this museum seems to feature so much.. what does never again mean? If not...

Exposición temporal “Ana Frank: Notas de Esperanza”.

Es una exposición que el museo Memoria y Tolerancia realizó en colaboración con el museo Casa de Ana Frank en Amsterdam, Holanda.

El costo de entrada es del $65 para el público en general y hay descuento para estudiantes.

La exposición es un pequeño viaje a través de una línea del tiempo en la que se narra el momento histórico en el que vivió Ana Frank y su familia, los sucesos que narra a través de su diario y se recrean los espacios de lo que era “La casa de atrás”, hogar en el que vivieron 8 personas (incluida Ana) poco más de 2 años.

La exposición es sorprendentemente muy buena, se recrea el escenario de una forma muy cercana a la realidad (según el museo original en Ámsterdam) y los hechos históricos se narran de una gran forma. Vale mucho la pena visitar esta exposición, el trabajo realizado es realmente muy bueno. El único pero que pongo es que la logística para entrar es algo tediosa, desde la compra de los tickets, hasta el acceso a la sala pero me parece que vale mucho la pena la espera, el trabajo realizado es realmente muy bueno. Es una exposición temporal, por lo que, vale la pena ir cuanto antes.

Temporary exhibition "Anne Frank: Notes of Hope".

It is an exhibition that the Museum of Memory and Tolerance held in collaboration with the Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The entrance fee is $65 for the general public and there is a discount for students.

The exhibition is a short journey through a timeline that narrates the historical moment in which Anne Frank and her family lived, the events that she narrates through her diary and recreates the spaces of what was "The Secret Annex", home where 8 people (including Anne) lived for a little more than 2 years.

The exhibition is surprisingly very good, the setting is recreated very close to reality (according to the original museum in Amsterdam) and the historical facts are narrated in a great way. It is very much worth visiting this exhibition, the work done is really very good. The only but I put is that the logistics to enter is somewhat tedious, from the purchase of tickets, to access to the room but I think it is well worth the wait, the work done is really very good. It is a temporary exhibition, so it is worth going as soon...

Visiting this museo is like a punch in the gut when you’re reminded that ‘never again’ has always been an empty promise. genocide-like activity continues into the present and foreign governments rarely risk significant amounts of their own people and political capital to stop genocides in faraway countries, and are always inclined to turn away refugees as culturally/economically undesirable. Nevertheless it’s important to have these places so people (especially young people) understand the circumstances that bring about these events so there can be hope to change this in the future.

They have brought a railcar that carried Jewish people and rebuilt it inside the museum; standing in that was the most powerful moment for...