Museum Hopper

my mom and i went the holocaust memorial center today. it was a perfect today to go since it reached about 95 degrees here in the detroit area. my mother had been to the older museum about 10 years ago and my dad had been to this one about 5 years ago. my mom thought it was much bigger and better laid out than the older version. the museum is quite sequential and it was easy to follow and complete in order. i think the best part of the entire museum was this HUGE time line. it went from almost the beginning of the jewish faith through present day on the top of the time line. below the time line were other events occurring throughout the world (i.e when the wall of china was built, mozart's messiah was written, etc.). then there is a pretty full description about the jewish faith, beliefs, rituals and ceremonies. we did a good skim of this section, since most of this was familiar to us. next we learned about jewish cultural and contributions to society leading...