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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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a quiet, reflective lunch spot...
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User Reviews of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Yelp.com Review - by tim b.

5 of 5 stars. This is an amazing memorial/museum. It is not the kind where you are able to dash through in order to see everything just so you can go to the next museum. This is a place to take your time, think, be…
yelp.com - user review - 05/29/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Monica B.

4 of 5 stars. Prior to my visit to the holocaust memorial, i had done quite a bit of reading on the construction and contents of the museum itself. I feel that this essentially worked against me and my ability to…
yelp.com - user review - 05/20/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Christopher E.

5 of 5 stars. One of the best museums I've been to. I've been twice...once by myself and once with my wife. I will say that, since my wife really isn't into history and didn't care as much, that it was more…
yelp.com - user review - 05/06/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Jennifer K.

5 of 5 stars. The way the museum is set up is highly effective in getting the message across. Pictures, notes, films, artifacts, etc. are carefully placed and constructed together to get the viewer's attention and…
yelp.com - user review - 04/25/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Kristen F.

5 of 5 stars. We "purchased" a ticket prior to our trip online for this museum so we wouldn't have to get there early to get a ticket. However we found out that the tickets were available most of the day for the…
yelp.com - user review - 04/17/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Diana B.

5 of 5 stars. Not sure what to compare it with, but it's most impressive.
yelp.com - user review - 04/12/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by rose t.

5 of 5 stars. You haven't been? Get the heck off the computer and just go.
yelp.com - user review - 04/05/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by DJHighYello W.

5 of 5 stars. When I lived in DC I never made the trip to this museum, it was always too crowded. Lame excuse but as a visitor to the city we went on our trip last week. I can only echo what others have said…
yelp.com - user review - 04/04/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Kyra T.

5 of 5 stars. This is truly an amazing museum - equaled only by the Hiroshima museum. I went several years ago after it opened and my friends and I spent 4 hours walking through it. It is really an intense…
yelp.com - user review - 04/02/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Ginger L.

5 of 5 stars. I've been to Dachau camp in Munich, Germany before but this museum just tops it. I was told the exhibit takes bout 6 hours to complete. We were in bind for time so we did it in about 2 hours. I…
yelp.com - user review - 03/25/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Trish F.

5 of 5 stars. It's always kind of awkward when you tell someone you're interested in things like the Holocaust or World War II or movies with violent themes. But seriously.. this museum is amazing. On the way in,…
yelp.com - user review - 03/18/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Joye P.

5 of 5 stars. I cried several times when I visited this museum. The curators have done a perfect job of humanizing the Holocaust, really delving into the history and details....yet doing it in a way that protects…
yelp.com - user review - 03/18/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Quinn E.

5 of 5 stars. This museum is life-altering. Seriously, I've never been the same. I knew a decent amount about the Holocaust and WWII before I visited, and saw the requisite horrible videos of mass graves back in…
yelp.com - user review - 03/09/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by dan r.

5 of 5 stars. Great Museum to check out. They give you a tour of the museum and when you first go in you are given a booklet that has information about a person in a concentration camp. The whole time they told you…
yelp.com - user review - 02/23/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by femme g.

5 of 5 stars. It's incredible, horrible, sad and powerful. The shoes are the hardest part for me. And the reflection room at the end is warm and somehow a place to fill you with hope.
yelp.com - user review - 02/09/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Heather L M.

5 of 5 stars. I'm not sure what more I can say that has not been said already. The museum is phenomenal. It's heart-wrenching and touching as well as educational and shows what can happen when no one wants to…
yelp.com - user review - 02/06/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Bucky K.

5 of 5 stars. Welcome back gentle reader. We will now join a scene in progress as we study our favorite subject: Numerous ways in which Bucky can be a dick. It's still early in the day and we are already about…
yelp.com - user review - 01/11/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Kristie S.

5 of 5 stars. What a wonderful experience. I wish I would have alloted more time for it (I think I was there about 3 hours), because there is SO much to see. I grew up reading about Anne Frank, so this whole time…
yelp.com - user review - 11/14/2007
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Stunning and Chilling

The Holocaust Memorial museum is the most moving museum I've ever visited. It is at once stunning, chilling, provocative, overwhelming, and gripping. A visit to the museum will make certain that the
kudzu.com - user review - 11/07/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Ann L.

5 of 5 stars. This museum was very interesting. We were lucky to get the Permanent Exhibit tickets since not many tourist Tues 10/2/07, it's next door to the Bureau of Engraving & Printing which we went to first.…
yelp.com - user review - 10/05/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Lynn S.

5 of 5 stars. This is the premier experiential museum. Its architecture, the manipulation of natural light vs. darkness, brick walls, the intrusion of narrow ramps and freight box cars in the path of visitors are…
yelp.com - user review - 09/20/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Moxy T.

5 of 5 stars. A must see! We were there for about 5-6 hours and it flew by. We decided to see the permanent exhibit. As we entered we were greeted by a volunteer who was also a survivor. She told us if we were…
yelp.com - user review - 07/15/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Dave L.

5 of 5 stars. Powerful. You're lead through the events of the Holocaust, witnessing things you never wanted to see. No one can really understand the horror unless you've been there, but this museum is probably the…
yelp.com - user review - 06/08/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by jennifer p.

5 of 5 stars. My boyfriend and I visited this museum and we will never forget it. There were so many things we did not know about until visited this place. It was very depressing, but it was very interesting, in a…
yelp.com - user review - 05/16/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Jennifer S.

5 of 5 stars. WOW... You have to come here and see it for yourself! Even though, LA has the Museum of Tolerance, I feel that this museum will DEFINITELY blow you away... and will capture you into the moment, the…
yelp.com - user review - 05/15/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Rinky N.

5 of 5 stars. A moving and powerful museum. I wished we had allowed more time to see this museum. We went in April when DC was crowded with tourists. We could only get timed tickets for the permanent exhibit on…
yelp.com - user review - 05/13/2007
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This is a museum to put on the must see list. It is very thought provoking, but mentally tiring. We ordered tickets in advance on ...
gusto.com - user review - 04/25/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Krista P.

5 of 5 stars. One of the most memorable museum I have ever visited. It had been years since my tour in this museum but some very vivid images from here remained with me forever. Highly emotional graphic exhibits…
yelp.com - user review - 04/14/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by angela n.

4 of 5 stars. If you've been to the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, this is the same general idea. There are films, photos (the concentration camp mugshots are chilling), documents, audio testimony from…
yelp.com - user review - 04/04/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Rachelle M.

5 of 5 stars. This is an incredibly interesting and oddly beautiful Holocaust memorial. As people have stated, when you enter you are assigned a passport with a real person's name, and you find out their fate at the…
yelp.com - user review - 03/06/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Sara B.

5 of 5 stars. The museum is very well done. In addition to the exhibits, it offers well placed white space where one can sit to take it all in, reflect, cry, digest before moving on. I also thought they did a great…
yelp.com - user review - 02/17/2007
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This was not an easy place to go to. I remember seeing it in SF, and I wanted to see it again in DC because ...
gusto.com - user review - 01/07/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by rachel m.

5 of 5 stars. An museum that is so close to the truth of the holocaust, they have information on nearly anything you would ever want to find out on the subject. Some is hard to view because it was such a brutal…
yelp.com - user review - 12/05/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by John G.

5 of 5 stars. A must see monument to "Never Again". Stunning portrayal of this event in history. It gets so real, you cannot help but being overcome by emotion. When you enter, you get a name id of an actual…
yelp.com - user review - 11/18/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Andrea C.

5 of 5 stars. Amazing experience. Everyone should go once in their lifetime.. although its hard to see everything the museum has to offer in only one visit. I've been meaning to bring my family down to see it for…
yelp.com - user review - 11/13/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Kris H.

5 of 5 stars. A memorable experience...as it should be. The layout: Starts off on the forth floor, in chronological order of events. The museum is impressive on so many levels. The architecture, the layout that was…
yelp.com - user review - 11/10/2006
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Holocaust Museum

We went here when we were on the Washington DC trip. The museum was very serious and had all sorts o...
judysbook.com - user review - 11/07/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Ron B.

4 of 5 stars. Very sobering experience. Although it is pretty depressing it is a good experience to go through. The museum is well organized between the three floors but it was often crowded and hard to read a…
yelp.com - user review - 10/17/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Brian B.

4 of 5 stars. Comparatively, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles we found to be much better. We only went because people I know said it was better than ours. For those visiting from…
yelp.com - user review - 09/25/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Jed S.

5 of 5 stars. Ryan is right, you will be depressed. But it will give you purpose to do your part to ensure that these events do not happen again. This is an important experience. Not a place to bring young…
yelp.com - user review - 09/05/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Maureen K.

4 of 5 stars. When I visited this museum, I ended up waiting for 3 hours because you get a passport and you get sent in groups through the Museum. The Museum was so crowded that I kept moving with the crowd and…
yelp.com - user review - 08/23/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Vanessa W.

5 of 5 stars. An excellent, although sombering, look at the chain of events that constitute the Holocaust. Very well done. Highly recommend it.
yelp.com - user review - 08/09/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Jennifer S.

5 of 5 stars. I visited this museum years ago, soon after moving to the DC area. I think it was my first stop on the "tour." I entered the museum anticipating that I would see, read and hear disturbing things, but…
yelp.com - user review - 08/09/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Barbara C.

5 of 5 stars. Ryan and Richard are very right that you'll leave feeling depressed, but you'll also come away with a sense of hope that these events in history don't repeat. It is one of those places I think…
yelp.com - user review - 07/10/2006
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A memorial that vividly makes its point

This museum is a very effective memorial to the Holocaust and its victims. It does the work of a qua...
judysbook.com - user review - 04/10/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Richard T.

5 of 5 stars. What Ryan said below is so true. But it's an amazing learning experience. Make sure this is on your list of places to check out in DC.
yelp.com - user review - 03/31/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by lothari o.

5 of 5 stars. You will be depressed.
yelp.com - user review - 03/27/2006
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Holocaust Memorial Museum

If there is one museum in Washington that you should visit, this is it. The HMM is one of the finest...
judysbook.com - user review - 02/17/2006
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