An immersive Anne Frank exhibit is coming to one of Chicago’s most popular museums.
“Anne Frank The Exhibition” will open this May at the Museum of Science and Industry, with a full-scale and reconstructed Annex, along with “never-before-seen artifacts” from Frank’s life during World War II.
“Explore the world that shaped Anne’s story, from her early childhood in Frankfurt through the rise of Nazi Germany and the spread of antisemitism across Europe, to the Frank family’s move to Amsterdam” a description of the exhibit from the museum read.
The exhibit is a presentation of The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, according to a release. Chicago is the second U.S. city to see the exhibit, which premiered in New York on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
According to organizers, the exhibit will immerse visitors into the events that shaped Anne’s life, “from her early years in Frankfurt through the rise of the Nazi regime.”
“It traces her family’s phased move to Amsterdam in the early 1930s, where Anne lived for ten years until her arrest in 1944,” the release said. “Visitors also follow her deportation to Westerbork, a large transit camp in the Netherlands, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, a concentration camp and killing center in Nazi-occupied Poland, and eventually to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, where she died at the age of 15.”
The exhibit includes 130 original artifacts from the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, many have never been seen before in public, including letters, Anne Frank’s first photo album (1929-1942), a German fairytale book that belonged to Margot Frank and Anne Frank and more.
It will also feature a fully furnished, full-scale recreation of the Annex rooms where Anne, her parents, sister and four other Jewish refugees hid for two years to evade Nazi capture.
The exhibit is designed for adults and children 20 and under, and was created using an antisemitism curriculum developed by the Anne Frank House and the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina.
“These materials help students understand the history and ongoing reality of antisemitism and hatred while fostering critical thinking, empathy and civic responsibility through meaningful classroom conversations,” the release said.
In addition, children visiting the exhibit on a field trip will receive journals to write in.
The exhibit opens to the public May 1, the release said. The exhibit is not included in general admission to the museum, and a separate purchase is required. More information can be found here.
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