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More than 12 million people have visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
in six years.
Museum Under Fire
A federal report hits management
of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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DANIEL KURTZMAN
Special to the Jewish News
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fficials at the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum in
Washington, D.C., are
promising reforms following
a caustic independent report that
identified key problems in governance
and management.
The report, ordered by Congress
and conducted by an outside panel of
administrative experts, concluded that
the 6-year-old institution has been sti-
fled by "excessive involvement" of the
museum's governing council in day-to-
day operations.
It also said power was concentrated
within a small group of council mem-
bers and criticized the institution for
its "weak committee system, inade-
quate discipline, and a lack of profes-
sionalism."
The study recommended that legis-
lation governing the museum, which is
a federal institution, should be changed
to strengthen its administration, scale
back the role of the council and give
the director of the museum more pow-
ers as a chief executive officer.
The report paints a picture of a
struggling
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stands in stark contrast to outward
appearances. As one of the most visit-
ed sites in Washington, the museum
has proved a success beyond the
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expectations of its founders, who had
worried that its halls would be empty
once Jews had come to see it.
More than 12 million people have
walked through its doors since it opened
in 1993, and the museum has created a
national presence in recent years
through a series of traveling exhibits.
While the report acknowledges the
museum's undisputed success, it further
tarnishes the institution's reputation
following several well-publicized con-
troversies during the last 18 months.
In January 1998, the museum came
under fire for its on-again, off-again
invitation to Palestinian Authority
Chairman Yasser Arafat to visit the
museum. The subsequent ouster of the
museum's director, Walter Reich —
who some charged was made a scape-
goat for the Arafat debacle — proved
to be another public relations disaster.
Also last year, the museum was
stung by criticism of its decision to
hire Holocaust scholar John Roth to
head the museum's Center for
Advanced Holocaust Studies. Roth was
assailed for controversial writings about
Israel and ultimately resigned the post.
And most recently, the museum
was criticized for promoting a book,
Crimes of War: What the Public Should
Know, that some critics say contains
anti-Israel propaganda and Usely
accuses Israel of engaging
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cleansing" of Palestinians.