The Holocaust Museum

I went to visit the Holocaust Museum one afternoon, only to find that all the tickets allocated for that day had been handed out by mid-morning.    This is typical of many of the sights in D.C.    One morning at seven a.m., I was running on the Mall in a nice cool drizzle (nice for running, that is), and I passed about a hundred people standing in line at the Washington Monument to get tickets.    The ticket office did not open for an hour.

Anyway, although I could not tour the main exhibit at the Holocaust Museum, they said there were two rotating exhibits in the basement that I could visit.    They were excellent exhibits, well worth the time to see.    But they were extremely graphic, much more so than the exhibits at the Houston Holocaust Museum, and you would not want to take anyone under the age of thirteen to see them.

I spent about 45 minutes in the museum, and that was all that I could take.    The docent told me that the main exhibit takes about four hours to tour the main exhibit; I can't possibly imagine.