Holocaust Museum LA is set to return after an approximately eight-month closure, reopening as the centerpiece of the Goldrich Cultural Center at Pan Pacific Park. The project, a $70 million expansion, transforms the 65-year-old museum into a campus roughly three times larger than its former space. 

One major permanent installation will feature an authentic World War II-era railcar recovered near the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland. The exhibit will explain how transportation systems were used in the machinery of Nazi death camps. After viewing the railcar, guests can move into a reflection garden intended to give them time to absorb what they have seen. 

The redesigned campus includes classrooms, a 215-seat theater, and a canopy that links three separate buildings. The pauses between exhibits were deliberately built into the visitor experience, especially for student groups, so that visitors can consider the material and their own capacity to contribute to a better world. 

These new renovations to Holocaust Museum LA are important for the development of being able to continue Holocaust education through informational spaces that create a vivid image of why fighting against anti-semitism is so important in the current day.