The Reflection of Visiting the Museum of Tolerance

History is just like a mirror for a country that provides lessons and foundation for the further development. Where can human obtain the materials of history? The answers are the books and the museum which contain the original and authentic the recordation of history events. A museum is the materialization development history in which human beings have conversations with history through all kinds of historical relics and overlook the ups and downs of the history breaking out the obstruction of the space-time. I have been visited the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles in my spare time and obtain a great number of valuing information and inspiration that were beyond my expectation. This paper is on the purpose of what I have thought and learned which attribute to my visiting.

First and foremost, the Museum of Tolerance is the only museum that theme is tolerance in the world and set up in the year of 1993. The purpose of building this museum is to promote the respect and mutual understanding through devoting themselves to education and the relationship of the community’s parties and the participation of the citizens. It is said that “the Museum of Tolerance have been received five million visitors, and middle and high school students plan an important role at present.” (The Museum of Tolerance) The exhibition of this museum is divided into five parts that are Holocaust Section, Tolerancenter, Anne, Finding our Families, Finding Ourselves, and Special Exhibitions. Obviously, in the Holocaust Section, a great number of facts of massacres are presented the narration and photos of the survivors especially. It is vivid to present events of a history figure and how he endured the wartime.

Moreover, what astonished me is in the part of Anne. It is about a story of a little girl named Anne who is Jewess and persecuted by Nazi. It presents the life of Anne detailed that how she endured the silence life with her families and how she personality turned from naïve to mature in the two years for avoiding the arresting of Nazi. They cannot live like other people such as cooking, lighting or even speaking loudly. At that period, Anne showed all her feeling to her diary instead of crying and bothering her parents. Finally, her diary was discovered by her father the only one survived from that tough period and made efforts to publish her daughter’s diary that is named The Diary of Anne Frank. The significance of this part of this museum is to influence the students who have the same age or older than Anne. She is persecuted by another nation that was eager to wipe out her nation. This is an action of antihuman which should not exist nowadays. That is the value of this museum for the middle and high school students.

It is significant to make a conclusion. History makes us self-examination and provides motivation to the further development. The Museum of Tolerance regards the issue of tolerance a permanent and meaningful theme for human beings as its topic and widely receives school students who are the builders and host in the further. It is necessary to teach them by history that the peace of the world attributes from the efforts of all human beings no matter in which countries. However, tolerance is the practical and determined way to solve the problems between different nations and countries. It is the most advanced method in the policy of diplomatic for a country, in particular for the leading powers. Every race in the world is in the equal position and should be respected. The function of a museum is to inspire an individual to think in the historical mood and have more ability to embrace the different idea from ourselves.