All figures are as of January 2023, unless otherwise noted.
Visitors to the Museum
Since opening in April 1993
- Total: More than 47 million
- Demographics: Currently 24% school children; 12% international; approximately 90% non-Jewish
- Dignitaries: More than 100 heads of state; more than 3,500 foreign officials from over 132 countries
- Members: 181,862
Visitors Online
- Museum Websites: In 2022, 34 million visitors representing 243 countries and territories (59% international visitors)
- Holocaust Encyclopedia: Available in 20 languages; in 2022, visited by 25.7 million people worldwide
- Facebook: 1,679,666 followers
- Twitter: 445,889 followers
- Instagram: 177,150 followers
- E-mail Community: 836,000 subscribers
- YouTube: 90,700 subscribers
- LinkedIn: 10,554 followers
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Visitors to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum line up at the 14th Street entrance of the Museum's building. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum's 14th Street entrance. —Timothy Hursley for US Holocaust Memorial Museum
William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education
The Levine Institute is the world’s preeminent institution for promoting quality Holocaust education. As part of our nation’s official memorial to the Holocaust, the Levine Institute’s educational programs reach students, teachers, and the public as well as leaders in the American military, judiciary, law enforcement, and government.
The Teacher Fellowship Program trains leaders in the field of Holocaust education. This national corps of skilled educators promotes quality Holocaust education and programs to ensure that how and why the Holocaust happened is an important component of Holocaust education.
- More than 420 fellows, representing 49 states, the District of Columbia, and 11 countries, trained since the program began in 1996
Leadership programs for professionals examine the choices made by individuals and institutions during the Holocaust to give participants insight into their own professional and individual responsibilities today.
- 24,925 participants from the judiciary since 2009
- 160,940 law enforcement program participants since 1999
- 63,430 military participants since 2005
Special Exhibitions in the Museum
- Americans and the Holocaust
- Burma’s Path to Genocide
- American Witnesses
- Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story
Traveling Exhibitions
More than 350 presentations of nine exhibitions in 210 cities and 49 states, as well as Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Serbia, Tunisia, Belgium, and South Africa. The UN has hosted three Museum exhibitions, two and UN headquarters in New York City and one in Paris. Current exhibitions include:
- Americans and the Holocaust
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The 14th street entrance of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum at dusk. —Timothy Hursley for US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe and delegation tour the Permanent Exhibition and meet Holocaust survivors, Leo Melamed, Julie Baskes and Nina (Masha) Leon. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Close-up images of the Tower of Faces in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's permanent exhibition. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Artifacts, including a diary, from the collection of Anthony Acevedo, a World War II veteran and POW, who survived the Berga camp. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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A young visitor examines a display in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's "Remember the Children: Daniel's Story," which is designed for children eight and older. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Image projection of "Our Walls Bear Witness: The Plight of Burma's Rohingya" in 2013 on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's 15th Street plaza walls. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Holocaust survivor Margit Meissner visited Rwanda in 2014 and addressed prisoners at Nyanza prison, where 89 percent of the inmates have been convicted of genocide crime. —Laura Elizabeth Pohl for US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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John Butzke with his great grandfather's stuffed teddy bear named Hans, an artifact donated by Eva Butzke and family in 2014. Family jewels were hidden inside the neck area of the teddy bear during the Holocaust. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Artifacts curator Kyra Schuster displays the handmade American flag donated by the children of World War II liberator Donald Hall. The flag was given to their father by prisoners in gratitude after the liberation of the Langenstein concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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A student from H.D. Woodson High School in Washington, DC, tours the Museum's permanent exhibition. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Student ambassadors of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Bringing the Lessons Home program tour the "Tower of Faces" in the permanent exhibition. The program trains high school students in the DC area to become Museum docents. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Mansour Omari, who was detained for nearly a year in secret governmental prisons in Syria, stands in front of the "Syria: Please Don't Forget Us" special exhibition, which presents the dire situation facing Syrian civilians and the search for justice. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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The Museum's Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide hosted a public program called "Syria: Is the Worst Yet to Come?" in 2018 on the seventh anniversary of the Syrian conflict. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Holocaust survivors and Museum volunteers Albert Garih and Ruth Cohen light a candle during the Days of Remembrance ceremony on April 2018 at the US Capitol. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Entrance to the "Americans and the Holocaust" special exhibition, which shows how the Depression, isolationism, xenophobia, racism, and antisemitism shaped responses to Nazism and the Holocaust in America. It reveals how much information was available to Americans at the time and asks why rescuing Jews did not become a priority, except for a few individuals who took the risk to help. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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US Naval Academy midshipmen observe Pastor Martin Niemöller's quote in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's permanent exhibition. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Christina Chavarria, program coordinator for education initiatives for the Museum's Levine Institute for Holocaust Education, leads a teacher training during the Conference for Holocaust Education Centers in 2018. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
The Mandel Center promotes the growth of Holocaust studies at American universities, fosters relationships between American and international scholars, and works to ensure the ongoing training of future generations of Holocaust scholars.
- More than 1,010 faculty seminar participants from 49 states and the District of Columbia (and Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Sweden, the UAE, and the UK) in 52 Mandel seminars held at the Museum from 1999 to 2022
- More than 719 fellows-in-residence from 34 countries since 1994
- More than 1,030 campus outreach lectures in 49 states since 2001
David M. Rubenstein National Institute for Holocaust Documentation
The Museum is building the authoritative collection of record on the Holocaust and making it fully accessible and preserved for future education, research, and scholarship. The Museum’s collection of artifacts, documents, films, photographs, recorded sound, microfilms, digital resources, and published materials is preserved in the state-of-the-art David and Fela Shapell Family Collections, Conservation and Research Center.
- 25,388 objects
- Approximately 125.5 million pages of archival documents, with an additional 200 million digital images from the Arolsen Archives (formerly the International Tracing Service)
- More than 114,116 historical photographs and images, of which more than 34,874 are available on the Museum’s website
- More than 1,456 hours of archival film footage; 220 hours of outtakes from the film SHOAH
- More than 133,000 library items in 61 languages
- More than 25,000 Holocaust-related testimonies and access to nearly 52,000 oral histories from the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation and 4,500 interviews from Yale’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- 209,960 survivors and their descendants, as well as other victims and WWII veterans, registered in the Meed Survivors Registry
- Approximately 11.98 million name records in the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, of which over 9.2 million records are available online
Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide
The Simon-Skjodt Center is dedicated to stimulating timely global action to prevent genocide and to catalyze an international response when it occurs. Its goal is to make genocide prevention a core foreign policy priority for leaders worldwide through research, education, and public outreach.
- Led over 10 Bearing Witness trips from 2004–2019 to countries of concern including Burma, Iraq, South Sudan, Rwanda, The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Syrian border to sound the alarm about the need for urgent action in places at risk for genocide and related crimes against humanity
- Met with hundreds of policymakers in the US and abroad to strengthen governments’ will to prevent genocide and related crimes against humanity
- Hosted 35 fellows over the past ten years who have conducted cutting-edge research that can save lives—including developing the world’s first public early warning system for assessing the risk of mass atrocities in countries around the world
