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Empowering K-12 students for a brighter, more inclusive tomorrow

Educational Commitment

The Maltz Museum proudly welcomes over 10,000 students through our doors each year. We give educators and students a place to explore a rich tapestry of diverse stories of courage, both from history and the present day. Our Museum experiences are designed to foster understanding and promote inclusion—essential values that empower young minds to pave the way toward a more inclusive future.

Student Tours

Our knowledgeable educators conduct guided tours of the Museum’s exhibitions, inviting students to engage in critical thinking exercises that inspire them to connect history to the present day. Educators can choose a focus for the tour that best aligns with their classroom goals:

Holocaust Education: Lessons of the Holocaust
Past in Progress: a Maltz Museum Stop the Hate Tour
Speak with a Survivor
Interactive Biography Experience

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Stop the Hate® Program

Anti-bias education for a more inclusive tomorrow

Stop the Hate® is the Maltz Museum’s signature program for Northeast Ohio middle and high school students committed to creating a more accepting, inclusive society. Through Stop the Hate, students gain awareness of issues driven by exclusion, discrimination and bullying, while being inspired to courageously create positive change.

Each year, the program awards $100,000 in scholarships to student upstanders and anti-bias education grants to schools. As of April 2025, the total amount of scholarships, prizes and anti-bias education grants awarded through the contest to Northeast Ohio students, teachers and schools is $1.7 million.

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Maltz Museum Student Tours FAQ

Holocaust Education: Lessons of the Holocaust

The Holocaust stands as a defining moment of the 20th century. Key concepts covered on this tour include:

The rise of modern antisemitism and history of hatred against Jews
How global economic depression, nationalism, and militarism made state-sponsored mass murder possible
The tactics and psychology of propaganda
The behavior of individuals under extreme conditions

Speak with a Survivor

Students can hear a Holocaust survivor’s personal story and ask questions, which is one of the most meaningful ways to learn about history. We recommend pairing this with your tour or you can book as a standalone experience.

**Past in Progress: a Maltz Museum Stop the Hate Tour**

This tour invites students to engage with the museum’s historical objects to better explore how communities have faced difficult moments and decisions throughout history. Using object-based inquiry and visual analysis, students will examine the causes and consequences of bias and hate, then investigate how individuals and communities have challenged them. Through interactive activities and group discussion, students will investigate how messages and actions, both large and small, can influence the way people are treated and remembered. This active learning experience encourages students to think about how individual and collective choices shape our own communities and the world.

Book a Free classroom Workshop

The Stop The Hate ® program includes the group tour free classroom workshops, and the Stop the Hate scholarship contest. Working with teaching artists, students reflect on bias they’ve experienced in their own lives and share their ideas and actions as upstanders in their community.

Interactive Biographies: You can learn history from people who were there

Personal stories lift history out of books and into real life, giving students the opportunity to ask questions about the past and get answers directly from a primary source.

Speak with civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr., A.I.
Using arificial intelligence (A.I.) the Maltz Museum has captured the life story of one of the foremost leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. As a young man Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr. made the decision to dedicate his life to fighting for equality, becoming a close friend and colleague of Martin Luther King Jr. Today, he holds the distinguished title of Pastor Emeritus at Olivet Baptist Church in Cleveland. Rev. Moss was filmed answering thousands of questions, so that you can hear his story, ask about his life as a civil rights activist, and learn about history directly from someone who was there through A.I.
Speak with Holocaust survivor Stanley Bernath, A.I.
Using artificial intelligence (A.I.), the Maltz Museum has captured the life story of an ordinary man who survived extraordinary circumstances as a child survivor of the Holocaust. Stanely Bernath lost everything but he never gave up hope, eventually building a new life in Cleveland. For over 40 years Stanley shared his story with audiences across Ohio. Stanley Bernath was filmed answering thousands of questions, so that you can hear his story, ask questions about what life was like during the Holocaust, and learn about history directly from someone who was there through A.I.

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2929 Richmond Rd. Beachwood, OH 44122

Contact Information

216.593.0575 info@mmjh.org

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