PHOTO: Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education galleries are closed while the museum's new 1,000-square-foot gallery space is integrated into the museum as shown in this architectural image.

The galleries at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education are closed through April 18, 2023, as the museum begins construction on a gallery space that will house a new core exhibition, Human Rights After the Holocaust.
OJMCHE purchased the former Charles Hartman Gallery space on the North Park Blocks, and the construction integrates the new gallery with the existing museum.
“This will allow OJMCHE to dramatically enhance its power to accomplish its core mission, which includes ‘exploring the lessons of the Holocaust and fostering intercultural conversations,’ by expanding to include a focus on today’s experience of hate, racism, discrimination and persecution,” says Executive Director Judy Margles.
The exhibition opens in June 2023 and is being developed by Scott Miller, former chief curator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He has also been part of the curatorial team at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York for its new exhibition, What Hate Can Do.
Human Rights After the Holocaust promises to be a profound and moving exhibition, one with widespread appeal that will help OJMCHE extend its reach. It will also be likely to play a significant role in helping to support the bill passed in 2019 by the State of Oregon mandating Holocaust and genocide education.
Opportunity to help create new exhibition
Have you experienced displacement, genocide, or discrimination – or are you the descendant of someone who has? Do you have any personal objects that help tell the story of that event, and would you be willing to loan or donate them to the Human Rights After the Holocaust exhibition? If so, email OJMCHE’s Curator of Collections at curator@ojmche.org about what you available.