Exhibitions

EMBRACE IDEALS. CHALLENGE REALITY. PARTICIPATE IN REPAIR.

How well do you embrace ideals, challenge reality, or participate in repair when the ideals fail?

You’ll find the Pivot to America Wing equal parts inspiration and participation. Through interactive kiosks, brief films, and testimonies, explore the ideals of our nation and how we are learning to live up to them over time; learn that it is up to all of us to participate in the repair process to create the best America possible.

Interactive Kiosks with 12 Strands Tracing the Repair Process for Groups and Individuals in American History

African Americans’ Rights, American Indians’ Rights, Asian Americans’ Rights, Children's Rights, Criminal Justice, Disability Rights, Hispanic Rights, Immigrant Rights, LGBTQ Rights, Slavery and Human Trafficking, Religious Rights, Women’s Rights

Texas Upstander Wall

Celebrate Upstanders from Texas and around the United States - who have stood up to injustice and changed the world.

Piccadilly Cafeteria

Experience Dallas’ cafeteria sit-in for African American rights, and other civil rights events in America, through personal testimonies.

Beyond Tolerance Theater

The Beyond Tolerance Theater inspires visitors to confront their own biases. In this interactive space, visitors will learn about hidden bias and consider responses to it.

Want to know more?
Explore the sites below to learn more about unconscious bias.

Project Implicit:

What Educators Should Know about Implicit Bias

Call to Action Kiosks

The visitor experience culminates in a Call to Action, a challenge to embrace ideals, challenge reality, and participate in repair. Here, visitors can connect with activities and organizations to start to make a difference.

Memorial & Reflection Room

The Memorial & Reflection Room provides an opportunity to remember the victims and honor the relatives of Dallas families who perished in the Holocaust and also to reflect on your own Museum experience.

Torah scroll originally belonging to a Jewish congregation in Horovice, Czechoslovakia. Confiscated by the Nazis during the Holocaust and rescued after World War II by the Westminster Synagogue of London.

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