About The Jewish Museum
The ground floor exhibits can be seen for free, plus there's a cafe with Jewish cuisine, and a shop. There's also a 100-seat auditorium which has fun and educational events including films, discussions, and comedy nights.
Four Permanent Galleries
Ark, Italy, 17th century. Walnut, oak. The large synagogue ark that forms the focal point of the Museum's ceremonial art displays was discovered at an auction sale in Northumbria, where it had been used as a wardrobe.
© Jewish Museum LondonWelcome Gallery
This multimedia exhibit is the first you encounter as you enter the museum. It introduces visitors to a diverse range of Jewish people including a third generation smoked salmon manufacturer, an Indian-born marathon-running grandmother, a taxi-driver, and an ex-army engineer who was commended for her action during the London bombings of 2005.
History: A British Story
Visitors can play the Great Migration board game, or smell the chicken soup in an immigrant home. The Same Old Story? interactive display allows visitors to explore attitudes to immigration over the past two centuries. This gallery explores how and why Jewish people have come to the UK from around the world and the challenges of making a new home in a new country.
Judaism: A Living Faith
Newly commissioned films in this gallery reveal a range of contemporary Jewish families celebrating festivals and Jewish lifecycle events such as a wedding and bar mitzvah. These are shown alongside rare and beautiful ceremonial objects including silver Torah scrolls made by George III's silversmith and religious textiles, such as a fabulous Torah mantle commissioned by the Mocatta family, one of the oldest Jewish families in Britain. Interactive displays enable visitors to design their own synagogue and to hear the chanting of the Ten Commandments from a Torah scroll.
The Holocaust Gallery
This unique space explores the impact of Nazism through the experiences and poignant personal items of London-born Auschwitz survivor Leon Greenman OBE and other survivors who have made their home in Britain.
Museum Highlights
- A recreation of an East End street and tailor's workshop brought to life with different characters talking about their lives at home and at work.
- A map showing where Jews have come from around the world, embedded with highly personal objects that they brought with them to their new country, for example a doll brought by a child refugee on the Kindertransport and a bible which was the only object an anti-apartheid activist was allowed to take with him into solitary confinement in prison in South Africa.
- Rare and precious ceremonial objects including a 17th century Italian Ark (pictured) and the oldest English silver Hanukah lamp.
- A Yiddish theatre karaoke presented by comedian David Schneider, whose grandparents were performers in London's Yiddish theatre, displayed with costumes, posters, programmes from the museum's extensive collection.
- A medieval mikveh/ritual bath (pictured below) from the 13th century, on display for the first time since its discovery in 2001 in the City of London.
Visitor Information
A mikveh, (Jewish ritual bath) which dates from 1270. It was found in Milk Street in the City of London and is one of only two known medieval mikvehs excavated in the UK.
© Jewish Museum LondonAddress:
The Jewish Museum
Raymond Burton House
129-131 Albert Street
Camden Town
London
NW1 7NB
Tel: 020 7284 7384
Nearest Tube Station: Camden Town
Then 3 minutes walk.
Official Website: www.jewishmuseum.org.uk
Opening Hours:
Sun - Wed 10am-5pm
Thurs 10am-9pm
Fri 10am-2pm
Last admission 30 minutes before closing.
Closed for Jewish festivals.
Admission:
Adult:£7
Concessions: £6
Child (5-16): £3
Museum Friends and Under-5s: Free
Family ticket (up to 2 adults and 4 children): £17
Prices include voluntary donation for Gift Aid purposes.
Admission is free to the Welcome Gallery, museum shop and café.
Event tickets include admission to the museum galleries prior to the event.
The Jewish Museum is fully accessible for wheelchair users.
