Mobile Museum of Tolerance

A first-of-its-kind initiative in Massachusetts—The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Mobile Museum of Tolerance (MMOT)—is a free, traveling education center fully funded by the Massachusetts legislature. Utilizing innovative technology and interactive lessons, the MMOT brings a powerful message of tolerance directly to students and communities across the Commonwealth. It challenges visitors to confront bigotry, antisemitism, racism and hate in all its forms, and to understand the Holocaust in both its historic and contemporary contexts.

The MMOT’s 30-seat, wheelchair-accessible vehicle serves as a self-contained classroom, while delivering a state-of-the art field trip experience. Led by licensed educators, the MMOT uses immersive technology and facilitated dialogue to deliver carefully designed workshops that cover topics including antisemitism and hate, the lessons of the Holocaust, the Civil Rights movement, and decoding online hate, all taught age-appropriately.

The Mobile Museum of Tolerance currently offers four workshops:

• The Anne Frank Story (Grades 5-8)

• Power of Ordinary People (Grades 7-12)

• Civil Rights Workshop (Grades 5-12)

• Combat Hate: A Digital Media Literacy Workshop (Grades 7-12)

MMOT workshops challenge students and visitors to draw on the lessons of the past to create a better future in age-appropriate manners. For students grades 5-12, MMOT workshops are 45-50 minutes long and aim to move students from dialogue to action to have them recognize their own personal responsibility in making a positive difference in the world.