Museum Education Project

FAIN: ZPP-283776-22

Holocaust Memorial Center (Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3738)
Ruth Bergman (Project Director: May 2021 to July 2024)

Resumption of in-person tours and workshops at a Holocaust-education center.

Group tours at the HMC ended in February 2020. Since then, we have launched a Virtual Museum Experience to meet the needs of the 35,000 8th through 12th grade students and their teachers who visit the HMC annually, and we have taken all of our events programming online. This meets the needs of some teachers and students, but not all of them. As restrictions in Michigan change, we are experiencing a high demand for group tours from schools who are in-person—parochial schools, home school pods, and virtual schools. While we have the ability to resume smaller guided tours, less than 10% of our 83-member docent corps are interested in resuming their volunteer activities (primarily due to a median age of 73). To meet the needs of our constituents, we would like to hire six professional Museum Educators to work with school groups, leading tours and providing support services to teachers.