Jewish Museum London Celebrates its 90th Birthday and Announces the opening of The Eye As Witness Exhibition in partnership with the National Holocaust Centre and Museum.

The focus on collections, partnerships and learning is being celebrated through the opening of the exhibition, The Eye As Witness, created by the National Holocaust Centre and Museum and supported by Arts Council England.

  • Jewish Museum London Celebrates its 90th anniversary
  • Confirmation of position of Frances Jeens as Director
  • Opening of The Eye As Witness Exhibition in partnership with the National Holocaust Centre and Museum.

Jewish Museum London is celebrating its 90th anniversary by confirming Frances Jeens as their Director. Frances has been the Interim Director for two years and has successfully repositioned the Museum through the Covid pandemic. The focus on collections, partnerships and learning is being celebrated through the opening of the exhibition, The Eye As Witness, created by the National Holocaust Centre and Museum and supported by Arts Council England.

The interactive exhibition explores the political and moral motives for witnessing and recording the Holocaust, examining different forms of witnessing including photography, texts and testimony, and encourages critical thinking on racism and hatred today.

The exhibition is set out across the Jewish Museum London with core components including:

 

  • Immersive VR experience: Walk into a Nazi-produced Holocaust photograph to see the photographer in action. Co-created by historian Professor Maiken Umbach and the University of Nottingham’s Mixed Reality Laboratory.
  • Holocaust victim’s own photographs: Explore the different perspectives of victim versus perpetrator photography.
  • Interactive testimony from Holocaust Survivors: Via the National Holocaust Museum’s acclaimed The Forever Project which preserves the ability to ask Holocaust survivors thousands of questions, using award-winning interactive Q&A technology.

 

The exhibition will open on Sunday 24th April, have a special candle lighting and curators talk for Yom HoShoah Wednesday 27th April 2022, and will close on Sunday 18th September 2022.

The exhibition is a product of research conducted in the multi-disciplinary project ‘Photography as Political Practice in National Socialism’, funded by Arts Council England and the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by Professor Maiken Umbach, which brought together historians, education experts, computer scientists and museum professionals to transform the use of images in understanding the Nazi regime and the Holocaust.

 

Director, Jewish Museum London, Frances Jeens said:

“I’m delighted to share this partnership news that the Jewish Museum London will be hosting the National Holocaust Centre and Museum’s Eye As Witness Exhibition. Working in strong partnerships across both the Jewish and cultural sectors is central to the way the Museum works and I’m so pleased this will be our first exhibition in my role as Director. The exhibition reflects the values of the Jewish Museum London in supporting academic research, creating space for discussion, and using technology to bring stories to our audiences.”

Read the full Press Release here: JML Press Release NHCM 2022

Photographs of the exhibition are available upon request.

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Posted in Press Release by Eliana Mendelsohn on April 4th, 2022.

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