I don’t know any other Holocaust museum that deals with the civil rights movement and human rights issues.”Īt this point, an estimated completion date has yet to be announced. OMNIPLANs vision was to make the entire experience of visiting the museum cohesive from the moment you see the museum from afar, to when you enter the main. “But we also want to deal with genocide around the world and current events related to prejudice and hatred, and goodness knows there are plenty of things happening today that prove the reason why this museum is important. The new museum, being designed by Omniplan Architects, will be around 50,000 square. “Our focus, of course, will be on preserving evidence of the Holocaust and teaching lessons of that event,” said the museum’s president and CEO Mary Pat Higgins to The Dallas Morning News. The Dallas Holocaust Museum will build a new location in the West End Historic District in downtown Dallas. Image: OMNIPLAN The architecture is essentially reflective of this notion of a journey, OMNIPLAN said in a statement, expressive of movement from arrival to departure, designed to provide an intuitive path for all visitors so that the focus is on the experience that is removed.
Preliminary designs, by Texas-based Omniplan Architects, indicate a modest concrete and weathered steel structure with expanded galleries that would be built on parcel bound by Ross Avenue, Houston Street and the Dallas Area Rapid Transit light. Lobby of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. The Dallas Holocaust Museum and Center for Education and Tolerance has officially gone public with plans to build a new permanent home in the city’s West End, across from the museum’s current location.
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