Museum of Jewish Heritage

If you look at the Manhattan skyline for the southwest corner of the island - you will notice a funny shaped grey pagoda like building that looks a wee bit out of place amongst the skyscrapers.  This very beautiful very unique building is The Museum of Jewish Heritage   which states its missing as "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 honors those who died in the holocaust by celebrating their lives and traditions that they cherished, while affirming the vibrant worldwide Jewish community across the globe today.  

The building of the museum was designed by an architect team known as Roche-Dinkaloo.  (Kevin Roche and John Dinkaloo)  They built a 6 tiered hexagonal pagoda at the roof of the museum.  The 6 tiers and 6 points of the hexagon represent the 6 million Jews that died in the holocaust.  (It also represents the 6 points of the star of David.)  

The museum has several ways of relating its messages - through photographs, through objects, through videos (including testimonies of holocaust survivors acquired and collected by Steven Spielberg's "Survivors of the Shoah Foundation"), and audio tours narrated by Meryl Streep and Itzhak Perlman. 

The staff of the Museum of Jewish Heritage also keep a blog which you can read here!  http://www.mjhstaff.blogspot.com