{"id":5878,"date":"2025-10-16T01:59:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5878\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T01:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:59:51","slug":"florida-holocaust-museum-announces-reopening-date-for-remodeled-and-reimagined-museum-in-downtown-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5878\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Holocaust Museum announces reopening date for remodeled and reimagined museum in downtown St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">After more than a year of closure, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Florida Holocaust Museum<\/a> has announced it will welcome visitors back starting Tuesday, September 9th following an extensive renovation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">With a collection of over 25,000 artifacts, The Florida Holocaust Museum, located at 55 5th Street South in downtown St. Pete, is one of the largest Holocaust museums in the country and one of only three nationally accredited Holocaust museums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The renovation project includes a new entrance with enhanced security features, an open-air second-story balcony, a theater that will house its interactive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhm.org\/exhibits\/dimensions-in-testimony\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dimensions in Testimony<\/a> exhibit, and a temporary installation housing elements of the Elie Wiesel Collection. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The full Elie Wiesel exhibit, which will occupy the museum\u2019s third floor, will come in a later phase of the museum\u2019s building projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In addition to being one of the most famous survivors of the Holocaust, a world-renowned author, and champion of human rights, Wiesel cut the ribbon at The Florida Holocaust Museum\u2019s downtown location in 1998 and was a professor at St. Petersburg\u2019s Eckerd College for nearly 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After more than a year of closure, The Florida Holocaust Museum has announced it will welcome visitors back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-5878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}