Jewish Museum London celebrates the legend of Amy Winehouse with street art trail and exhibition
Jewish Museum London marks 2017 with a celebration of modern music legend Amy Winehouse in her beloved Camden Town, with a new Amy-themed street art trail and the return of the critically acclaimed exhibition Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait.
Acting Along to Clay
by Alice Tofts, UCL Museum Studies MA Student and Event Programmer for the Jewish Museum London’s ClayTime Late [Editor’s note] Five students from UCL’s Museum Studies MA course are working with the museum to plan a museum late event – ClayTime – on Thursday 2 February. Over the next few months they’ll be updating our […]
Klezmer at Claytime
by Alice Tofts, UCL Museum Studies MA Student and Event Programmer for the Jewish Museum London’s ClayTime Late [Editor’s note] Five students from UCL’s Museum Studies MA course are working with the museum to plan a museum late event – ClayTime – on Thursday 2 February. Over the next few months they’ll be updating our blog […]
My Jewish Museum
by Joshua Rocker, Marketing Intern I remember visiting the Jewish Museum for the first time as a seven-year-old, when it was stationed in East Finchley. Every Sunday, on the top floor by a desk near the steps, Leon Greenman, an Auschwitz survivor, used to sit and speak to visitors about his experiences. My parents […]
Say hello to our new Late event team!
by Mathilde Lester, UCL Museum Studies MA Student and Project Manager for the Jewish Museum London’s Claytime Late Hello everyone. We are five masters students from UCL, Museum Studies, here to organise a Late Night evening on 2 February to coincide with Shaping Ceramics: From Lucie Rie to Edmund de Waal. Over the next few weeks, […]
Shaping Ceramics
by Joshua Rocker, Marketing Intern With its working jukebox machine and colourful collection of record covers, I wasn’t sure if the Jukebox, Jewkbox exhibition could be topped by Shaping Ceramics: From Lucie Rie to Edmund de Waal. I had started a marketing and events internship at the Jewish Museum just as Jewkbox was approaching its […]
Refugees: In Our Eyes
by Lauren Johnson, Learning Officer During the summer, The Jewish Museum was asked to participate in a project run by Camden Council for the Camden Summer University that investigated the current refugee crisis. Local teenagers got the opportunity to take part in a week-long film workshop, whereby they researched the crisis and responded with a […]
The Battle of Cable Street
by Morgan Wadsworth-Boyle, Assistant Curator On 4 October 1936, the people of the East End united to block a march by the British Union of Fascists, led by Sir Oswald Mosley. Within the week leading to the event, local politicians had pleaded with Home Secretary Sir John Simon to forbid the march, and he had also been presented with […]
The London Yiddish Choir is at the Museum – come join us!
by Robin Rubenstein, Guest Blogger This story begins like a Jewish joke: an Irish Jew, a Russian Jew and an American Jew meet in a hall in West London… In June 2009, I attended Shivaun Woolfson’s extraordinary exhibition “Surviving History: Portraits from Vilna” at Spiro Ark. The multi-media presentation included film, artefacts, and moving testimony […]
Help put Amy’s Camden on the Map
We’re excited to announce our first crowdfunding campaign, raising money to create a new street art trail celebrating Amy Winehouse in the area she called home. Donate now and receive some great rewards in return! In Spring 2017 the Jewish Museum London’s intimate and moving exhibition Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait returns to its Camden […]
