JHE coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber writes that even though the project has been greenlighted, Rome is still at least three years away from having its Museum of the Shoah. The $30 million, city-funded museum, Italy’s first fullscale Holocaust museum, is to be built on the grounds of Villa Torlonia, Benito Mussolini’s residen from 1925-1943, and also the site of ancient Roman-era Jewish catacombs. It was first proposed in 2005; even if there are no further delays it will not open before 2016 or 2017.