The first-of-its-kind in the United States, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Mobile Museums of Tolerance (MMOT) are free, traveling education centers utilizing innovative technology, interactive programs, and curricula to combat anti-Semitism and other forms of hate. Coming in 2024 new buses will add to the growing fleet totaling ten mobile buses in California, New York, Illinois, Florida, Hawaii and Canada.

First launched in the US in Illinois, the MMOT is based on the Museum of Tolerance  (MOT) in Los Angeles, California, the educational arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which challenges visitors to confront bigotry, anti-Semitism and prejudice, and to understand the Holocaust in both historic and contemporary contexts. 

 

The MMOT’s 32-seat, wheelchair-accessible vehicle serves as a self-contained classroom, while delivering a field trip experience to its visitors. Led by a licensed educator, the MMOT uses immersive technology and facilitated dialogue to deliver carefully designed workshops that cover topics including anti-Semitism and hate, the lessons of the Holocaust, the Civil Rights movement, and decoding online hate, all taught age-appropriately. MMOT workshops empower participants with knowledge of the the dangers of the past in order to create a better future. 

 

In addition to middle schools and high schools, the Mobile Museums of Tolerance will visit college and university campuses, libraries, synagogues, churches, police stations, parks, and community centers. 

 

Coming this year, the fleet will grow to ten mobile buses in six states and Canada.

For more information contact: mmot@museumoftolerance.com