Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum — Attraction in Dallas

This is the only Holocaust museum I've been to, so I don't know how it compares to others. We came here about four years ago and I believe it was in the building to the south, or otherwise it was arranged differently. The previous arrangement was better in most ways in my opinion. We got held up a few frustrating minutes waiting on an elevator that was apparently broken with no sign to let one know it was broken. We were basically at the start of the tour route they want you to take and faced with videos, to include cartoon videos, depicting the history of Abraham. So, keep in mind at this point that the facility has billed itself as a Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. I think the museum's main purpose of focus on the Holocaust will gradually be diluted and one day there will be sections for Palestinians, Tigrays, Ukrainian Holodomor, Indonesian communists, Armenians, Kurds, the Balkans, Native Americans, etc - which is fine - just drop the Holocaust part of the name and call it the Human Rights Museum. To me - and, I'm not Jewish - the Holocaust is one of the most significant events in history for understanding of genocide and ethnic cleaning level murder. The previous layout seemed more easily self-guided. I felt I needed a tour guide to navigate this set up. At the end there were videos I didn't watch - just like the cartoons about Abraham - with teenagers talking in Nickelodeon fashion about genocide. I recommend the museum's executives focus on impact and presenting the significance of the Holocaust. I think they're trying to make the situation more relatable and presenting more holistic views and deeper understanding of more aspects, like the propaganda, marginalized life in ghettos, etc., but in some ways it seemed to get too into the weeds. Perhaps highlight every 15 minutes and/or at different sections a key theme such as "Approximately 6 million Jews all over Europe and beyond were systematically hunted down or rounded up and eventually murdered with the plainly understood mission to completely eradicate or annihilate the entire race and the history of its existence from the face of the earth." To me, this needs to be a singular building block for humanism thought. When people leave this museum, I want them to feel sick, utterly disgusted, and soul-crushed. THEN we can entertain more discussion on human rights and other scenarios. And then, perhaps, forge the path forward to ensure all things like this never happen again. The staff are very nice. Parking nearby ($10-12/day) has always been easy, by the way, and there are several other...

My 8 year old and I went for Spring break as she was curious about what happened during the holocaust. We parked across a small parking garage for $10.83, and it was gated so it felt secure. Now I will say this, when you start the exhibit there will be a short 5-6 min introduction video about human rights and about the holocaust..when the video is over the lights shut off, the automatic doors on the right will open by themselves followed by creepy instrumental sound, and there’s a voice that says “come in” and its dark in the other room you need to walk into. Well I was alone with my small daughter literally just the TWO of us….when I tell yall that even freaked ME OUT…it felt like I was about to be sacrificed in a ritual…so hear me out make sure if you have small children..make sure there’s more people in the room so it doesn't feel terrifying..and not to be dramatic but my daughter was so scared after that happened she kept looking at every door. I felt so bad but I get it its part of the experience. Another thing I will say, this museum is about 99.9% reading…diagrams and pictures with data with lots of political information. If you are REALLY interested in learning about the holocaust, make sure you come by yourself or with an adult buddy or older child rather than with small child(ren) for the first time so you can actually read the information calmly. Last thing, ofc its self explanatory, but coming out of the museum I was depressed for the whole rest of the day, that I even cried myself to sleep bc Im an empath and it affected me seeing children victim photos, hearing the morbid testimonies from victims and gruesome facts about what happened. So please BE AWARE if you are a very emotional person, its better to hold off. FYI, takes about 3-4 hours to read mostly everything in detail but there’s little foldable chairs they offer which (I loved that detail!) Other than that, its a great place to learn about the holocaust in Dallas!...

The people complaining about this museum and mentioning that you "have to read" are people who came here for entertainment and completely missed the point. For the admission ticket, you get access to a real digital IMAX video presentation that is perfect to set the mood. If you want "value for money' then there you go. Watch the IMAX presentation and keep the change.

The holographic room is not just a gimmick, it is truly cutting edge and we were very fortunate that the young man running the device is very into it, and has sincere love for all the "characters." I plan on going every week just to meet all the survivors in their holographic form.

The reflection room is somber, so somber I was unable to be there for more than a minute, and I feel ashamed for it. I will go back to pay my respects.

Every exhibit is carefully curated, and carefully presented, you can feel a presence, an uncomfortable presence at that. Getting inside the train wagon And I think that being uncomfortable is part of the experience. One should feel this when dealing with such deep troubles and ever-living maladies of the human experience.

The only bad experience I got is that the EV section was turned into a section for reserved parking, I think it was originally intended as an eco-friendly solution that devolved into a VIP. Added to this, the only EV charger is broken.

It would have been great to get my car charged while we visited, but unfortunately, it is not so. But that is just nitpicking at this point, because the main point of the museum is extremely well executed and once again, in the name of my entire family that consists of two young women and my wife, I want to thank the creators...