Building introduction: In 1993, the Israel Holocaust Memorial Museum decided to build a new museum in order to replace the old one built in the 1960s. The Holocaust Museum at Yad Vashem was officially opened on March 15, 2005. It was designed by the famous Jewish architect Moshe Safdie. Yad Vashem is currently the largest Holocaust museum in the world. It is designed to reflect the history of European Jewry during the Holocaust and Israel's resurrection from the ashes in the future.