Jewish Museum London

Jewish Museum London

Logo of the Jewish Museum London
Location within London
Location Raymond Burton House, 129-131 Albert Street, Camden Town, London, NW1 7NB
Coordinates 51°32′13″N 0°08′40″W / 51.536944°N 0.144444°WCoordinates: 51°32′13″N 0°08′40″W / 51.536944°N 0.144444°W
Public transit access Camden Town 3 minutes walk
Website http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/

The Jewish Museum London is a museum of British Jewish life, situated in the London Borough of Camden, North London. It is a place for people of all ages, faiths and background to explore Jewish history, culture, and heritage.

The museum is open to the public Sunday to Thursday, 10am-5pm, and Friday, 10am-2pm. It also has a dedicated education team, with an extensive programme for schools, community groups and families alike.

History

The exterior of the Jewish Museum London, Raymond Burton House.

The museum was founded in 1932 in the Jewish communal headquarters in Bloomsbury. In 1995, it moved to its current site in Camden Town. Until 2007 it had a sister museum in Finchley, operated by the same charitable trust and sited within the Sternberg Centre. The Camden branch reopened in 2010 after two years of major building and extension work.[1] The £10 million renovation was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and private donations.[2] The museum is a registered charity.[3]

Collections

The museum houses a major international-level collection of Jewish ceremonial art including the notable Lindo lamp an early example of a British Menorah (Hanukkah).[4] The new building includes a gallery entitled Judaism: A Living Faith, displaying the museum's noted collection of Jewish ceremonial art. This collection has been awarded "designated" status by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council in recognition of its outstanding national importance.[4] The Museum's Holocaust Gallery is made up of items and filmed survivor testimony from Leon Greenman, who was one of the few British subjects to be interned in the death camps section at Auschwitz.

The museum also has exhibitions recounting the history of Jewish life in England, supported by a diverse collection of objects. There are also collections of paintings, prints and drawings, and an archive of photographs, which consists mainly of black and white photographs from the 1900s to the 1940s.

Exhibitions

The third floor of the museum is host to temporary exhibitions.

Past exhibitions

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lawless, Jill (17 March 2010). "London's Jewish Museum reopens after major facelift". USA Today.
  2. ↑ Development plans
  3. ↑ THE JEWISH MUSEUM LONDON, Registered Charity no. 1009819 at the Charity Commission
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Jerusalem Post, 21 Jul 2009, London's Jewish Museum preparing to buy 300-year-old hanukkia for new location, Sarah Sechan

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