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=**Holocaust museum**= Danielle M. this is the Holocaust musuem located in Washington D.C. After more than a decade of thought and planning, the United States of America Museum opened in April 1993 in Washington D.C. But, before the museum's opening, there had been some debate as to whether a Holocaust Museum should be located in the United States. Others felt that the Holocaust was not part of American history, so were upset that the meseum was to be located in the nations's capital near such historic monuments as the Capital, Washington Monument and the Loncoln Memorial. In addition, many wondered if people - especially those on vacation - would visit a museum that was to remind them of horror. So, what happened when the doors opened? The museum was mobbed eith visitors. During the summer of 1993, the museum had 4,200 visitors a day, which was twice the number they had expected. And, though it was assumed that the number of visitors would decrease in the begining of Fall, the number rose instead. Museum officials were forced to work during the nights to clean and make adjustments to the displays. Yet still, rumors began to circulate that the exhibits were being worn out by too many visitors. Because of the extremely large number of visitor, by the end of the 1993, museum officials publicly asked that people wait a while before visiting the museum. Though ir has been a number of years since that request, the museum is still very busy. Since you need tickets for the museum which are free byt given out on a first come first serve basis, I highly recommend that you get to the museum early. The tickets are not necessarily important to get ou into the museum itself, but are very important as to when you will be able to get into the permanent exhibit. The tickets have times on them, scheduled every 15 minutes from 10:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Those who don't arrive until later in the day may recieve a very late time to enter the permanent exhibit.