Swedish Holocaust Museum

Swedish Holocaust Museum (Sveriges Museum om Förintelsen) is a state historical museum in Stockholm focused on the Holocaust. The museum is currently headed by Katherine Hauptman.

History
The idea of museum was proposed in 2018 by Polish-born Holocaust survivor Max Safir. The Swedish Ministry of Culture announced in 2020 that $1.1 million would be allocated to the Living History Forum in order to establish a Holocaust museum focusing on survivors living in Sweden as well as a separate "center" devoted to the memory of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. In 2021, the government commissioned the State Historical Museums to submit proposals for the establishment of Sweden's Holocaust Museum as a museum within the authority. One point was that stories from survivors with connections to Sweden should be at the center of the activity.

Completion of the museum was significantly delayed. It was decided that the museum would be located in Stockholm rather than Malmö in which a high number of antisemitic incidents had recently been reported.

In June 2022, the museum was inaugurated by the Swedish Minister of Culture, Jeanette Gustafsdotter.

The first exhibition Seven Lives opend for the public at Torsgatan 19 in June 2023.