KRQE, NM
June 6 2005
Albq. Holocaust museum wants better space
ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico’s Holocaust and Intolerance Museum in
Albuquerque is housed in a modest storefront in the city’s downtown.
The museum wants to move to a much large location downtown —
although no site has been selected.
Museum president Andrew Lipman says the goal is to move in two years.
Lipman says the museum will soon receive $985,000 that was approved
by the 2005 Legislature.
That will help plan, design, buy and equip a new museum.
Museum founder Werner Gellert says exhibits reflect American Indian
genocide and Armenian and Greek genocide as well as the Holocaust and
the Bataan Death March of World War Two.
Gellert hopes the new site will have room to honor the five million
non-Jews also killed by the Nazis.