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    Public Radio, Armenia
    Jan 5 2012


    Virginia Holocaust Museum to develop a permanent exhibit on the
    Armenian Genocide
    05.01.2012 16:36

    The Virginia Holocaust Museum has decided to develop a permanent
    exhibit on the Armenian Genocide. The museum hosted a special event in
    December to call attention to its temporary Armenian exhibit and spur
    donations of suitable artifacts and financial support for the
    forthcoming permanent exhibit. The event was organized by the Armenian
    Education Center (AEC) of Virginia, the Armenian Mirror-Spectator
    reports.

    The Virginia Holocaust Museum was founded in 1997 in several rooms of
    Temple Beth El but as it grew, in 2000, it was gifted an old tobacco
    warehouse by the Virginia State Legislature.

    Tim Hensley, the librarian of the museum, spoke about the museum's
    plan for a permanent exhibit, titled `The Whole World Failed,' which
    will include materials on a variety of 20th- and 21st- century
    genocides and the genocide of the American Indians.

    The Virginia Holocaust Museum is hosting the Watertown, Mass.-based
    Armenian Library and Museum of America's folding panel display, `The
    Ongoing Armenian Genocide: Death, Denial and Desecration,' devoted to
    the Armenian Genocide and its denial, from November 2011 to July 2012.
    It may also be shown at the University of Richmond for several months
    after this.

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