The Mobile Museum of Tolerance is making its rounds in Springfield—Wednesday outside the Illinois State Museum and Thursday and Friday at Root History, 737 East Cook Street.
Suitable for fifth-grade students through adults, the free mobile museum/classroom intends to inspire tolerance though education.
“I think it’s extraordinary that we can bring this vehicle—literally—to places that don’t have the opportunity to visit our museums and to understand how to become upstanders though the lens of human history,” said Alison Pure-Slovin, Midwest Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
“The workshops we create were vetted though our museum of tolerance in Los Angeles, and we use civil rights or the Holocaust to explain to students about today’s history and how to make the world a better place and fight hate. The bottom line is we all have to work against hate.”
The MMOT came about via a $1 million state grant and is booked through 2022 and into next year with some schools already requesting a return visit.
For more on the mobile initiative, visit www.mmot.com.