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Mobile Museum in Moline

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Mobile Museum of Tolerance

Quad Cities residents will be able to learn about tolerance this week.

The Mobile Museum of Tolerance will stop at the Moline Public Library from this Wednesday through Friday.
It's from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Chicago.

Elizabeth Blair is the Education Associate of the mobile museum, also called a travelling classroom. She says it's visiting Moline as a part of the "Out of Darkness: Holocaust Messages for Today" events.

Elizabeth Blair
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"We have one that's looking at Anne Frank and her diary. And we have another one looking at the role of ordinary people in the Holocaust. Why would people buy into the hate and propaganda that was being spread back then, and how was that movement actually allowed to happen through the actions of ordinary people?"

The Mobile Museum of Tolerance is fairly new, it only started travelling last year, and is now making its first stop in the Quad Cities.
Blair says its main goal is to how history can and does repeat itself, when we aren't careful.

"There's always going to be people that are different from you, whether it's different socio-economic, whether the there is a different race, different political ideologies, different religious beliefs. Whatever those differences are, we can still hopefully get to a point where we can treat people with fairness, treat people with respect ."

The Mobile Museum of Tolerance will be parked at the Moline Public Library and open from 10 am to 6 pm on Wednesday and Thursday, and 10 am to 4 pm on Friday.

Susanna Kemerling is WVIK Quad Cities NPR's 2022 Fellowship Host/Reporter. She graduated from Northern Illinois University for Media Studies in Communication and spent the last year working as a Teaching Assistant through the graduate program at NIU.