Museum of Tolerance Plans Opposed

Plans to expand the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles have been met with opposition by local residents. If there was a Museum of Irony, I’m sure it would have imploded at the news.

“The traffic, noise and music would disrupt the neighborhood,” said Simon, 83. “It’s like dancing on the dead people’s memory.”

“The [center] is making a desperate grab to railroad this project through the planning process,” said Susan Gans, an entertainment lawyer who has led the opposition.

Entertainment lawyer? That can’t be right. Surely the kind of lawyer that needs to be involved would be an expert on city planning and civil law. Who knows.

It seems the major arguments are the usual suspects: parking, roads, noise and architecture. It seems that whilst nobody is complaining about how it looks more than “it won’t fit in”, it seems the size of it is a bigger issue. The expansion will total about 28,000 extra square feet.

What I’m more interested in is the removal of the memorial garden and the fact that the expansion doesn’t seem to be for museum-related activities (bar being a source of funding).