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Jewish Museum
back to sights listingThe Jewish Museum opens a window onto the history and religious life of the Jewish community in Britain and beyond. The museum offers a wide-ranging programme of exhibitions, education and cultural events.
The Museum occupies two complementary sites, which together represent an important cultural and educational resource for London.
Its History Gallery traces the story of the Jewish community in Britain from the Norman Conquest until recent times, whilst its Ceremonial Art Gallery illustrates Jewish religious life, with objects of rarity and beauty. A Temporary Exhibitions Gallery offers a lively programme of changing exhibitions.
The History Gallery traces the story of the Jewish community in Britain from the Norman Conquest to recent times. Highlights include medieval notched wooden tax receipts; eighteenth century portraits; a Queen Anne silver tray and loving cups presented to the Lord Mayor of London by the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue. Through an interactive map, visitors can plot population changes over the centuries.
The Ceremonial Art Gallery aims to illustrate and explain Jewish religious practice with objects of rarity and beauty. These include a 16th centry Italian synagogue ark, Italian cradle charms, the oldest English Hanucah lamp, embroidered textiles and illuminated marriage contracts.
Audio-visual programmes present the cycle of Jewish Festivals and of Jewish life.
The Temporary Exhibitions Gallery accommodates an exciting programme of changing exhibitions, designed to illustrate different facets of Jewish history and culture, in Britain and overseas.
Our Finchley location, based within a vibrant Jewish community centre in North London, houses the museum's social history collections. These include an Oral History archive with some 400 tape-recorded memories, a Photographic Archive (with over 10,000 images) and a wide range of documents and artifacts, reflecting the diverse roots and heritage of Jews in Britain.
Holocaust Education is a major feature of the museum's work, with exhibitions and educational programmes relating to the Holocaust and the experience of refugees from Nazism.
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