{"id":322289,"date":"2026-06-28T03:31:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T03:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322289\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T03:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T03:31:21","slug":"florida-holocaust-museum-offers-free-admission-during-weekend-of-ye-concerts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322289\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Holocaust Museum offers free admission during weekend of Ye concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brief<\/p>\n

The Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg is offering free admission to all visitors from Friday, June 26th through Sunday, June 28th.<\/p>\n

The free admission days are designed as accessible community counterprogramming during the same weekend as Ye’s concerts at Raymond James Stadium.<\/p>\n

Museum leadership hopes the open doors will encourage the community to engage with history, confront antisemitism, and learn the real-world lessons of the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg is opening its doors to the community by offering free admission to all visitors from Friday, June 26th through Sunday, June 28th.<\/p>\n

Florida Holocaust Museum free admission<\/p>\n

What they’re saying<\/p>\n

The free admission days are specifically designed as accessible community counterprogramming, taking place during the same weekend as Ye’s sold-out concerts across the bay at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.<\/p>\n

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Museum leadership emphasizes that opening their doors for free is about offering a meaningful alternative and making vital history accessible to everyone during a high-profile weekend.<\/p>\n

“At the Florida Holocaust Museum, we felt the best response to the Kanye West concerts was to offer free days, June 26th, 27th, and 28th to give people an alternative. Counter-programming that’s accessible to everybody,” said Eric Stillman,\u00a0President and CEO of the Florida Holocaust Museum.<\/p>\n

Dig deeper<\/p>\n

By removing the cost of entry, museum leadership hopes the open doors will encourage the community to engage deeply with history and confront rising antisemitism at a time when these conversations cannot be ignored. Stillman warned that harmful rhetoric and tropes carry dangerous, real-world consequences.<\/p>\n

“People are looking to blame somebody when they’re unhappy, they feel like there’s something wrong in life, they want to find somebody to be at fault. And unfortunately, it’s a really sick and insidious thing to use anti-semitic words, anti-semitic memes or tropes, because it feeds anti-semitic violence,” Stillman said.<\/p>\n

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Ultimately, the museum’s educational mission is to use individual stories to help the public understand the massive scale of past atrocities on a human level, guiding visitors to see why remembering this history matters today.<\/p>\n

“We really hope people feel that we’re in an accessible place that they can come, check it out, learn about the real lessons of the Holocaust, and come away hopefully having a better understanding of why every single human being has worth and value and why we have to all work together to prevent future genocides and atrocities,” Stillman concluded<\/p>\n

The Source<\/p>\n

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