Boston Holocaust Museum

Located along Boston’s historic Freedom Trail, the six-story Holocaust Museum Boston will serve as New England’s first dedicated Holocaust education center. Designed by Schwartz/Silver Architects for the Holocaust Legacy Foundation, the museum features immersive exhibits, classrooms, and a preserved Nazi-era railcar to educate visitors on the Holocaust and its modern-day lessons about prejudice and democracy. The stainless-steel façade evokes curtains drawn in fear and fences of the camp - symbolically connecting the building’s form to its mission of remembrance and reflection.

DowelLam is supplying 17,000 square feet of dowel-laminated timber panels for the museum’s gallery levels, including custom acoustic and kerf DLT floor, roof, and wall panels, many of which are coated with a tinted black finish to provide a somber charred look. The DLT panels, spanning to a steel frame, provide both warmth and acoustic performance in this highly detailed urban structure, demonstrating the versatility of mass timber in civic and cultural architecture.