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New Holocaust Museum for Hope & Humanity in Orlando
June 7, 2022
Beyer Blinder Belle Leads Architecture of New Holocaust Museum for Hope & Humanity in Orlando
Location: downtown Orlando – at 851 N Maitland Avenue, Maitland, FL 32751, USA
Design: Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners
The 43,000 square foot museum—designed to symbolize a beacon for humanity when illuminated—is the first built around the stories of survivors
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New Holocaust Museum for Hope & Humanity, Orlando, FL
Orlando, FL (June 6, 2022) – The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida (HMREC) unveiled Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners’ (BBB) architectural renderings for the new Holocaust Museum for Hope & Humanity in downtown Orlando, which will be the world’s first Holocaust museum designed around survivor and witness testimonies. Housed in a landmark lakefront structure, the museum will serve as a distinctive and meaningful destination for the region—a global tourist hub which saw 75 million visitors in 2019—and a bridge to local students and residents of Central Florida.
The new 43,000-square-foot museum, which has an estimated construction budget of $45 million, is located on the site of the former Orlando Chamber of Commerce building at 75 South Ivanhoe Boulevard. Internationally renowned and award-winning architectural firm Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners is overseeing the building design and will collaborate with museum experts Ralph Appelbaum Associates (RAA), Dr. Stephen D. Smith of Memory Workers, and Carolynne Harris Consulting on the interior design and overall guest experience, joining forces to create and imagine a first-of-its-kind museum.
The centerpiece of the museum will be luminous at night symbolizing a beacon for humanity. Encompassing it is a dramatic ramp bathed in natural light that wraps around a cylindrical auditorium. The ramp will connect and create a continuation of exhibition space across two levels, with the largest single exhibit area being more than 12,000 square-feet providing a unique venue. The open end includes a large, glazed aperture—a window of hope.
The new museum will include innovative exhibits such as Dimensions in Testimony, pioneered by USC Shoah Foundation, which enables visitors to ask questions to specially recorded interactive testimonies of Holocaust survivors and hear real-time responses in lifelike conversation. The City of Orlando has agreed to lease the land on which the Holocaust Museum for Hope & Humanity is located for $1 per year for 99 years.
BBB is the design architect for the new museum, building on its portfolio of culturally significant work around the world. “The window of hope is oriented eastward and opens to the remembrance fountain, a contemplative water feature reflecting on six million lives. The building design reflects the museum’s solemn responsibility to share and preserve the stories of the survivors and uses architectural form, space, and volume in concert with the collection to educate, engender empathy, and inspire. The museum will be a transformative experience for visitors of all ages and a welcoming beacon of hope and humanity,” said Hany Hassan, partner at BBB.
This museum is not a history lesson in artifacts, timelines, and numbers. Its strength will come from the manner in which Holocaust history is revealed through the survivors who tell of their experiences. The common elements of humanity revealed will serve as a reminder of the vital importance of practicing the values of respect and cooperation every day.
About Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida and Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity
Founded in 1981 as a series of conferences on the Holocaust and its contemporary meaning, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida opened its current museum in 1986, founded by Holocaust Survivor and local philanthropist, Tess Wise. Located in Maitland, just outside Orlando, the Holocaust Center attracts visitors from around the world.
Its mission is to use the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry. Through its outreach of educational and cultural programs and exhibits, the Center teaches the principles of good citizenship and strives to instill compassion in people of all ages, religions, races, sexual orientations, abilities, and backgrounds.
The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center will transform into the Holocaust Museum of Hope & Humanity, a lakefront museum in Downtown Orlando and the first-ever built from the ground up in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation. To learn more about the Holocaust Center, visit www.holocaustedu.org.
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The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida – Cultural center in Maitland, Florida
Located in: Roth Jewish Community Center of Greater Orlando JCC
Address: 851 N Maitland Ave, Maitland, FL 32751, United States of America
Phone: +1 407-628-0555
Location: Orlando, Florida, USA
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