Jewish Museum London announces new mental health programme for schools linked to Holocaust Education
The Jewish Museum London is pleased to announce that a new programme to support young people with their mental health and wellbeing around grief and loss will be created in the memory of Solly Irving, a Holocaust Survivor who spoke to students at the museum for many years.
Jewish Museum London Secures Government Funding
Jewish Museum London has been awarded £249,126.00 as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and to ensure they have a sustainable future, the Culture Secretary has announced today.
Jewish Museum London announces new Chair and ‘Object Lending Library’
Nick Viner appointed as Chair of Jewish Museum London
Appointment comes as Museum’s digital programming reaches over 32,000 since lockdown
New funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to enable the Museum to bring unseen objects out from the collection into a wide range of community spaces.
Jewish Museum London Announces Withdrawal from Arts Council England’s National Portfolio Organisation and Changes to the Museum’s Leadership
www.jewishmuseum.org.uk @jewishmuseumLDN Jewish Museum London announces withdrawal from Arts Council England’s 2018-22 National Portfolio Chief Executive and Director of eight years, Abigail Morris, steps down ahead of change in direction [11 February, 2020; London] Jewish Museum London announces its withdrawal from Arts Council England’s National Portfolio Organisation to review its business model and plan for […]
Jewish Museum London Commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day 2020, 75 Years On from the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau
The Jewish Museum London is observing the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau with a series of events running from 23 January to Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January.
JEW. Photographs by John Offenbach
15 November 2019 – 19 April 2020 jewishmuseum.org.uk / @jewishmuseumLDN JEW is a new exhibition at the Jewish Museum London by photographer John Offenbach exploring the nature of what it means to identify as Jewish today: from religious to secular, rich to homeless, criminal to lawful through 34 striking large-scale photographs. A major art book […]
Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?
8 November 2019 – 1 March 2020 jewishmuseum.org.uk / @jewishmuseumLDN “In the condition of terrorised vulnerability and politically menaced radicalised identity….Salomon contemplated taking her own life… Instead, however, she created one of the most challenging, enigmatic and demanding artworks of the twentieth century”. Griselda Pollock in: Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory, published by […]
Jewish Museum London wins Museum Association ‘Museums Change Lives’ Award
Jewish Museum London is delighted to announce that it has been crowned winner of a Museum Association award in the category of 'Museums Changes Lives' for the major exhibition, 'Jews, Money, Myth'.
Jews, Money, Myth
A major new exhibition at Jewish Museum London, explores the role of money in Jewish life and its often vexed place in relations between Jews and non-Jews, from the time of Jesus to the 21st century.
Remembering the Kindertransport: 80 Years on
An exhibition to mark the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport, discover the stories of six of the Kinder (child refugees) in their own words.
