Museum Name: Florida Holocaust Museum
Schedule: Open Daily 10am - 5pm
Established: February 22, 1998 at the new location
Address: 55 5th Street South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Phone Number: 727-820-0100
Fax Number: 727-821-8435
Email: info@flholocaustmuseum.org
Director: David Schafer
Website: www.flholocaustmuseum.org
Ages: =ll ages are welcome for admission; tours for school children 5th grade & up
Cost: $8 Adult; $7 Seniors & College Students; $4 Students under 18; 6 & under Free
Class Trip Programs: Call for more information
Class Trip Pricing: Reservations are required for Groups of 10 or more for group rates; 1 free chaperone required for every 10 students; additional chaperones are $6 each; Students under 18 are $4; A $50 deposit used toward admission fees is required and is non-refundable.
Notes: To prevent future genocides, the Florida Holocaust Museum advances public awareness and education of the Holocaust and other genocides through a permanent exhibition, featuring an original boxcar from Poland. Traveling art exhibitions, tours, teaching trunks, survivor presentations and teacher trainings are available.

The Florida Holocaust Museum honors the memory of millions of innocent men, women and children who suffered or died during the Holocaust. The Museum is dedicated to teaching members of all races and cultures to recognize the inherent worth and dignity of human life in order to prevent future genocides.

The central focus of the Museum's mission is to educate others, especially future generations, about the Holocaust, other genocides, and human rights abuses that have occurred throughout history. The Museum accomplishes this through many established educational processes as well as new techniques that include art, artifacts, testimony and literature. These processes include teacher training, student and teacher seminars/institutes, teaching trunks, website accessibility, on-site exhibitions, traveling exhibitions, speakers and docent-led tours.

Major Exhibits

Through a collection of photographs, testimonies and historical artifacts relating to the Holocaust, visitors are guided through the comprehensive core exhibit.

The core exhibition is divided into twelve areas and takes visitors from the flourishing days of pre-war life of Eastern Europe, through the events of the Holocaust, concentration camps and, ultimately, the birth of the State of Israel.

Located in the central atrium of the exhibition space and resting on railroad tracks from Treblinka, is Auschwitz Boxcar #113 0695-5, which was once used by the Nazis to transport Jews and other men, women, and children to the killing centers.

A ring, dated to that time period, was found inside the boxcar during restoration.

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2006 Exhibits

Fragments: Portraits of Survivors by Jason Schwartz and Liberators: Unexpected Outcomes by Coe Arthur Younger -- July 8, 2006 - October 22, 2006.

Surplus of Memory: by Joe Nicastri -- May 13, 2006 - July 23, 2006

Student Artwork: by Margaret Lee Sinrod -- June 5, 2006 - August 31, 2006

Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals -- August 5, 2006 - October 15, 2006

Waldsee, 1944 -- September 16, 2006 - December 15, 2006