The Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust exhibition is to undergo a multi-million pound expansion and redevelopment, thanks to support from the Pears Foundation.
The charity has pledged to donate £5 million to the museum’s London site in order to renew its 15-year-old Shoah exhibit, which welcomes more than one million visitors every year. This will go towards increasing the number of personal stories and survivors’ testimonies featured, and adding to the objects and original material already on display.
“Our family is delighted to be supporting this important project,” said Trevor Pears, executive chair of the Pears Foundation.
“We strongly believe that the refurbishment of the Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London has the potential to be of ground-breaking importance in the way the Holocaust is taught, contextualised and understood, both nationally and internationally.”
