The Museum of Tolerance, contracted to the reference MOT, resembles a stack of bricks out of phase with each other, drab brown by day and an illuminated lantern from the ground by night. The construct was born through the beliefs of Simon Wiesenthal, a man who devoted his life to serving justice against the Nazis who had skived away from their crimes like rats from a sinking ship.

Optimizing digital displays and interactive holograms, the MOT explores the oppression and injustices of humanity in all its shadowy forms, a leering cloaked ghoul constantly stalking at the fringes of society. Wandering through the 5 key permanent exhibitions, stand in the shoes of vilified Jews from the Holocaust, take a glimpse at the nail biting anxiety that the lost children of Latin America wake up to each day and the flowery words we have inked on paper till now in the name of appeasement and understanding. Talk to the Millennium Machine, which will bring you on a hands-on exploration of the disparaging slurs we gloss over on the streets that eventually translate into the underground massacres that colored the soils of Cambodia and Latin America red. Prison uniforms bitten through by rats and the harrowing replica of a concentration camp gas chamber bring you to the very extremes of discrimination and full-blown eugenics.

Each article and record within the museum is another shameful mark to our past that we can’t afford to simply bury. A journey at the MOT that began with the utopian American Dream would end with the harsh reality of the world that we face, reminding us that even as we see history seemingly repeat itself time and time again, there is still hope for change.