The museum's new week-long pop-up exhibition is entitled 'The Moment the Music Stood Still: The Nova Music Festival Exhibition.'
In the year since the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia has used exhibits to keep a focus on the victims, survivors, and hostages.The fifth-floor space of the museum has been transformed to resemble a scene from the Nova Music Festival, an event that Hamas terrorists targeted in their attack on October 7, 2023.
" coming to party and celebrate and dance and be all about peace and love and music, and what they experienced when the terrorists began," said Emily August, chief public engagement officer at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Old City."The Moment the Music Stood Still: The Nova Music Festival Exhibition."
The exhibition also includes the portable bathroom stalls that Hamas terrorists shot into as people hid inside. "The pain of October 7 is felt by people in so many walks of life," said Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro after he toured the exhibition with his wife, several political and faith leaders, and the mother of two young women killed in the attack.
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