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El Museo de la Herencia Judía (en inglés: The Museum of Jewish Heritage), traducido también en el Museo del Patrimonio Judío, ubicado en Battery Park City en Manhattan, Nueva York, es un monumento viviente a los que murieron en el Holocausto. El museo ha recibido más de 2 millones de visitantes desde su apertura en 1997. La misión del museo es "educar a personas de todas las edades y orígenes sobre el amplio tapiz de la vida judía en los siglos XX y XXI, antes, durante y después el Holocausto."

El edificio del museo incluye dos alas: un edificio de seis lados con un techo en forma de pirámide diseñado para evocar la memoria de los seis millones de judíos asesinados en el Holocausto, y el ala Robert M. Morgenthau. El edificio de seis lados, inaugurado en 1997, contiene las principales galerías de exposiciones del museo. El ala Morgenthau, inaugurada en 2003, contiene las oficinas, el teatro y las aulas del museo, así como la galería de exposiciones Irving Schneider and Family. Ambas alas fueron diseñadas por diseñado por Roche-Dinkeloo.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage, located in Battery Park City in Manhattan, New York City, is a living memorial to those who perished in the Holocaust. The museum has received more than 2 million visitors since opening in 1997. The mission statement of the museum is "to educate people of all ages and backgrounds about the broad tapestry of Jewish life in the 20th and 21st centuries — before, during, and after the Holocaust."

The museum's building includes two wings: a six-sided building with a pyramid-shaped roof designed to evoke the memory of the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, and the Robert M. Morgenthau Wing. The six-sided building, opened in 1997, contains the museum's core exhibition galleries. The Morgenthau Wing, opened in 2003, contains the museum's offices, theater, and classrooms, as well as the Irving Schneider and Family exhibition gallery. Both wings were designed by designed by Roche-Dinkeloo.

History[edit]

The pagoda-like structure of the museum The Museum of Jewish Heritage was incorporated and chartered in 1984, dedicated in 1986, and built between 1994 and 1997 in New York City's Battery Park City. The museum's $21.5 million building, designed by architect Kevin Roche opened to the public on September 15, 1997. David Altshuler was the founding Director of the Museum, a position he held from 1984 until December 1999, when he left to become president of the Trust for Jewish Philanthropy.

Between 1946 and the 1960s, government officials lacked interest in building the museum until the American Jewish Community expressed interest and made an intervention for the museum creation; the American Jewish Community's interest was catalyzed by the Six-Day War in 1967. The intervention also contributed to the building process delay.

U.S. President Jimmy Carter, with the support of Mayor Ed Koch, proposed placing the national memorial in New York City instead of Washington, D.C., but it was ruled out. Koch's appointment of a Task Force on the Holocaust in 1981 was crucial. The Task Force, "which evolved in 1982 to the New York Holocaust Commission," recommended the creation of a museum. Carter, in 1978, created the President's Commission which placed the issue on the US government's agenda. The agenda remained present until it became a reality in President Bill Clinton’s term on 1993.

Before the museum became a realization, there were many political events that occurred that slowed down the museum creation. Political events included debates based on the structure, location, and even other priorities such as a funding crisis. One of the co-chairman wanted to "personalize" the museum building. The museum's site, originally proposed to be located within the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, was relocated to Battery Park City in 1986. The funding crisis was when "Black Monday", which occurred on October 19, 1987, "wiped out" funds of potential donors for the museum as well as dropped real estate prices.

Initially, Koch's administration and co-chairmen George Klein were going to obtain the Custom House for the museum. In 1985 Governor Mario Cuomo’s broker negotiated site change to Battery Park City. Klein and other leaders were enthusiastic about the change since they wanted to create the best museum for the least price. Many plans for the Museum of Jewish Heritage was submitted but they were rejected by City's planning authorities.

In 1990, the museum merged with the Center for Holocaust Studies in Brooklyn. Architect Kevin Roche begin designing the museum in 1993. In the same year, Howard J. Rubinstein also joined the museum's board.

The New York City Holocaust Memorial Commission, established in 1982, was reincorporated in 1986 as the New York Holocaust Memorial Commission, with Governor Cuomo and Mayor Koch, as well as Klein, Robert M. Morgenthau and Manfred Ohrenstein and Peter Cohen as chairmen of its board. The museum's Robert M. Morgenthau wing The plans were not completely accomplished in the beginning because the funds were not sufficient to cover the vision, so in the early 2000, the realization took place with the guidance of David Marwell. In 2003, the dedication of the Robert M. Morgenthau wing included auditoria, classrooms, conference center, and a temporary exhibition space.

At an event held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on January 29, 2017, Elisha Wiesel suggested that protesting against Executive Order 13769 ("Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States") was part of his father Elie Wiesel's legacy. Outside view of the museum From 1997 until 2019, the museum had a Core Exhibition which told the story of 20th and 21st century Jewish life from the perspective of those who lived it. Through a rotating collection that included artifacts, photographs, and documentary films, the Core Exhibition placed the Holocaust in the larger context of modern Jewish history. It was organized into three chronological sections: Jewish Life A Century Ago, The War Against the Jews, and Jewish Renewal — each told on a separate floor. It was housed in the museum's six-sided building, symbolic of the six points of the Star of David and the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

On the morning of January 8, 2021, a Confederate flag was tied to the front door of the museum, less than two days after the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol by a pro-Donald Trump mob, some of whom carried Confederate flags into the Capitol building. The discovery of the flag prompted the filing of an aggravated harassment complaint.

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 [[Categoría:Museos de Nueva York]]
 [[Categoría:Museos judíos de Estados Unidos]]
 [[Categoría:Museos de genocidios]]
 [[Categoría:Conmemoraciones del Holocausto]]
 [[Categoría:Museos inaugurados en 1997]]
 
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