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January Newsletter

| View in browser Join the conversation or share your experience by visiting our social media. Samuel Bak Museum: The Learning Center is a space where art is the gateway to a conversation on human rights, Holocaust education, and genocide. The Spring 2026 exhibition, Justice and Hope, explores how artists Samuel Bak, Dinh Q. Lê, Mladen Miljanović, Serge Nitegeka, and Maja Ruznic use intertwining personal narrative and historical facts to commemorate conflicts and denounce humanity’s inability to forgo violence. The exhibition poses questions on reconciliation and how we might learn from history to build better futures.  Samuel Bak Museum: The Learning Center thanks the following sponsors for their generous support of Justice and Hope and accompanying educational programs and events. Join us for free exhibition programming and events at the Samuel Bak Museum this spring. Exhibition Lecture – Thursday, February 19, 6PM Art from Trauma: Lessons from Listening to Genocide Survivors in Rwanda Speaker: Gerise Herdon, Ph.D. Dr. Herdon will present on the work of memory and the transformative power of language and story to confront trauma and its haunting ability to shape minds and lives across generations. She will share her work of listening to Rwanda genocide survivors and how even in Nebraska we are connected to them, how we choose to acknowledge the human rights violations, and move towards peace and hope. All Museum programming is FREE and open to the public, but due to limited seating, preregistration is required. RSVP Today!   Exhibition Lecture – Thursday, March 5, 6PM Bosnia: Who Remembers? Who Denies? Speaker: Lana Obradovic, Ph.D This talk explores what it means to commemorate genocide in a society still divided, asking who is allowed to shape collective memory versus challenge it. By focusing on post-1996 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dr. Lana Obradovic will address who remembers, who resists those memories, and why places like Srebrenica remain central and contested in public history.   All Museum programming is FREE and open to the public, but due to limited seating, preregistration is required. RSVP Today!   K-12 Education  RSVP for the Educator Open House today!  K-12 Education Education Highlight Students from Papillion South High School’s theater and journalism class recently visited the Museum in preparation for both their spring play, The Diary of Anne Frank, and the spring musical, James and the Giant Peach. This day of collaboration provided conversations about the art in the exhibition, Suspended in Time: Still Lives and Magic Realism, as well as Samuel Bak's experiences as both an artist and a Holocaust survivor. During the field trip, journalism students interviewed Museum staff and fellow high school students about the experience for the online high school newspaper. Student photographers took pictures of the event and play production students began to design sets for the spring productions. Students enjoyed the chance to engage in cross-curricular activities, and teachers found it to be an impactful trust-building activity for students who work closely together to produce a quality product in a creative environment. Interested in an engaging K-12 experience? Find out more about our K-12 tour and field trip opportunities. Request a Field Trip today! Free Audio Tour The Museum mobile tour is back, offering a free audio tour available for visitors in English, Spanish, and French. Please bring your headphones and a smart device to scan a QR code at each stop. Guided Tour Requests Would you like a Private Guided Tour? Complete the Guided Tour Request Form for more information. Meeting Reservation Requests Interested in reserving the Museum Classroom for your next meeting? Read our Reservation Agreement to see if your group is eligible. Complete the Reservation Request Form to get the conversation started. Additional information can be found on the Museum's Meeting and Event Spaces website page.  Featured Events A Moment of Memorial with Painter Samuel Bak - Tuesday, January 27, 11AM (CST)   Speaker: Samuel Bak In partnership with Pucker Gallery and Facing History and Ourselves, the Vilna Shul presents an opportunity to join Sam in marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day with this special online program. He will talk through his life and work, sharing how his work illustrates his story, and concluding with the lighting of a yahrzeit (memorial) candle. This is an online only event. RSVP today at visit vilnashul.org! Samuel Bak Museum: The Learning Center, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 2289 South 67th Street, Omaha, NE 68016 Manage preferences |
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