The Kansas City Museum is honored and excited to announce that it will feature a conversational AI video project with great-grandmother, businesswoman, and Holocaust survivor Sonia Warshawski, lovingly known as Big Sonia. Here is a behind-the-scenes video of the making-of for this project: Behind The Scenes: Big Sonia & StoryFile on Vimeo. This AI project with Sonia is similar to other “Dimensions In Testimony” projects at the USC Shoah Foundation.
Working in collaboration with Leah Warshawski, the Impact Producer and Director of Inflatable Film and a granddaughter of Sonia, the Museum will launch this AI media experience in 2025. It will be located in Corinthian Hall’s third-floor gallery called Our City, Our Stories.
The Kansas City Museum will be the first museum in the United States to feature this AI media experience and advance the educational impact of it by creating educational materials using a restorative practices methodology.
The Museum is actively fundraising for the project and has received a generous lead contribution from the Barton P. Cohen and Mary Davidson Cohen Charitable Trust housed at Midwest Trust Company. If you are interested in making a contribution, please contact Paul Gutiérrez, Deputy Director, Visitor Experience & Public Engagement, at pgutierrez@kansascitymuseum.org.
Photo of Sonia Warshawski courtesy of Inflatable Film / Big Sonia Movie.