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Group Visits to the New Museum
By Vivian Uria
The opening of the new Museum at Yad Vashem on 15-16 March is
generating a great deal of interest in Israel and around the
world. This significant change to the Yad Vashem site presents an
opportunity to improve the content and organization of the
millions of visits to the site each year. Recognizing the often
unacceptable crowding due to lack of coordination or prior notice
of group visits in the past, Yad Vashem has set up a new Central
Reservations Office, which will coordinate all future group visits
to the site.
From the opening of the new Museum to the public, all organized
groups will be required to coordinate their visit in advance with
the new Reservations Office on one of two tracks: educational or
non-educational organizations. The groups may choose to be taken
through the new Museum by one of Yad Vashem’s trained tour guides
for a fee, or by outside guides once they have undergone training
by Yad Vashem staff. In addition, Yad Vashem will provide audio
guides to the site in a variety of languages, with priority given
to museum visitors.
The author is Director of the Visitors Center
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