Sophisticated Giving Spotlight: Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum

This week’s Sophisticated Giving Spotlight is on the Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum.

Sophisticated Details: The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is one of only 22 Holocaust museums of this size in the country and the only Holocaust Museum in the state of Missouri. It is dedicated in honor of the survivors and the memory of the victims. The Museum is undergoing a transformative expansion into a world-class institution expected to draw 100, 000 visitors per year, create jobs, and serve as an educational and training resource for hundreds of regional schools, law-enforcement personnel, and teachers. Construction on the $21 million capital project is underway, with a grand opening anticipated in August 2022.

Sophisticated Goals: The new Museum will be a dynamic, multi-faceted experience that will take visitors through the history of the Holocaust while empowering them to consider how to apply its lessons in their daily lives. An expanded library, archives, and research area will serve as a climate-controlled environment to support scholarly research and maintain more than 12, 000 museum artifacts. A first-of-its-kind Impact Lab will provide a capstone experience as visitors engage with interactive modules that address one of our society’s core challenges: the reality that too many people have too little positive exposure to those with different perspectives.

Sophisticated Giving: Donors can help make the world a kinder, more open place through financial contributions. The Museum will also need a variety of volunteers and docents to support their work in the months leading up to opening and afterward. Gifts of all kinds will help build a world-class institution for generations to come.

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