Welcome to the Mobile Museums of Tolerance

The Mobile Museums of Tolerance offer a world-class learning experience, utilizing innovative technology and interactive lessons to bring its message of tolerance directly to schools and communities nationwide. The MMOT aims to inspire people of all ages and backgrounds to promote human dignity by empowering them to raise their voices to combat anti-Semitism, bullying, racism, hate, and intolerance. Coming in 2024 new buses will add to the growing fleet totaling ten mobile buses in California, New York, Illinois, Florida, Hawaii and Canada. First launched in the US in Illinois, the MMOT is based on the Museum of Tolerance (MOT) in Los Angeles, California, the educational arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which challenges visitors to confront bigotry, anti-Semitism and prejudice, and to understand the Holocaust in both historic and contemporary contexts.

Empowering Student Knowledge through Educational Workshops!

The MMOT’s 32-seat, wheelchair-accessible vehicle serves as a self-contained classroom, while delivering a field trip experience to its visitors. Led by a licensed educator, the MMOT uses immersive technology and facilitated dialogue to deliver carefully designed workshops that cover topics including anti-Semitism and hate, the lessons of the Holocaust, the Civil Rights movement, and decoding online hate, all taught age-appropriately. MMOT workshops empower participants with knowledge of the dangers of the past in order to create a better future.
Explore Our Educational Workshops

Cynthia Wagner

Hillside School Curriculum Director

I am so grateful that we had this opportunity and could bring this to our middle school students. Students were able to make connections and say, ‘You know I need to be kind to others and my words matter.’”

MMOT Extension Guest Speakers!

Guest speakers from Mobile Museum of Tolerance are available for in-person and virtual engagements. These speakers can be requested to accompany the MMOT bus or scheduled for separate events. Learn More
Kurt Gutfreund – Holocaust Survivor
Juliana Taimoorazy -Assyrian Genocide Survivor
Peter Bul -Lost Boys of Sudan Survivor 
Marguerite (Lederman) Mishkin – Holocaust Survivor
Jeff Schoep – Former White Supremacist 
Marty Zak – Son of Holocaust Survivors
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Lost Boys of Sudan visit Jefferson School 2023
Lost Boys of Sudan visit Jefferson School 2023
Lost Boys of Sudan visit Jefferson School 2023
Jeff Schoep with Andie Townhouse, Librarian, Roberto Clemente High School and student. 2023
Jeff Schoep and Andie Townhouse of Roberto Clemente High School – 2023
Jeff Schoep speaks with students at Niles West High School – 2022
In addition to middle schools and high schools, the Mobile Museums of Tolerance will visit college and university campuses, libraries, synagogues, churches, police stations, parks, and community centers.

Illinois MMOT Uniting Communities