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.
The Abayudaya: The Jews of Uganda
In October the Jewish Museum London celebrated Black History Month. In honour of this, one of the Museum’s Learning Officers, Shereen Hunte, led tours around the museum looking at the black Jewish community. The Ugandan Jews have had a prominent part in these tours as we currently have a temporary exhibition on their community, the Abayudaya. The exhibition consists of photographs taken by one of the museum’s volunteers, Daniel, and professional photographer, Rena Pearl.
Exploring the anti-trafficking movement in twentieth century London
This post will look into one of the artifacts in the museum archive that links to the history of the anti-trafficking movement in London, Jewish women’s history and the complexities of these at the turn of the 20th century.
Memento Mori and the Dutch and Jewish Involvement in Transatlantic Slavery
For Black History Month 2019, the Jewish Museum London hosted an exhibition on the Jewish Abayudaya community in Uganda and organised tours exploring ways in which race is portrayed through religion. One of the objects in the museum’s collection discussed in the Black History Tour is a painting with the title “A Memento Mori”.
Membership Week 16-19 December
Join us for Membership Week at the Jewish Museum and enjoy our range of activities and events taking place throughout the week.
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 […]
Sukkot and the Significance of Pilgrimage
Every year on the 15th of the Jewish month of Tishrei (this year on the 13th October), Jews celebrate Sukkot, also known as Feast of Tabernacles.
Celebrating our Volunteers
23 September 2019 was a very special day for the Jewish Museum London as six of our amazing volunteers were chosen as joint-winners of the London Region Marsh Awards for Museum Learning.
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'.
