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Jewish Museum London
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Logo of the Jewish Museum London
Jewish Museum London is located in Greater London
Jewish Museum London
Location within London
Location Raymond Burton House, 129-131 Albert Street, Camden Town, London, NW1 7NB
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Public transit access Camden Town Underground.svg 3 minutes walk
Website http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/

The Jewish Museum London is a museum of British Jewish life, history and identity. The museum is 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 has a dedicated education team, with an extensive programme for schools, community groups and families alike.

The events, programmes and activities at the museum aim to provoke questions, challenge prejudice, and encourage understanding.

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

Solomon Hart, Procession of the law, 1845

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 includes items and filmed survivor testimony from Leon Greenman,[5] 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

  • For Richer, For Poorer: Weddings Unveiled
  • Designing the 20th Century: Life and Work of Abram Games
  • For King and Country? The Jewish Experience of the First World War
  • Four Four Jew: Football, Fans and Faith
  • Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait
  • R.B. Kitaj: Obsessions - The Art of Identity
  • Morocco: Photographs by Elias Harrus and Pauline Prior
  • Entertaining the Nation: Stars of Music, Stage and Screen
  • No Place Like Home
  • World City: Refugee Stories
  • Ludwig Guttmann: Father of the Paralympic Games
  • Adi Nes: The Village

See also

References

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  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 [1]
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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