unirdg-collections: Ever wonder where a museum gets its objects? In the case of this reversible plough, we drag them out of hedges! Our curators in the 1960s had a tour of a farm in Cornwall and were so taken with this abandoned plough they brought it back to the museum. A favourite in our collection […]
Fashion Forward – Young Filmmakers project blog post
by Bella Millon, Participant and MA Student IOE From creating our own imaginary exhibitions to learning filmmaking techniques, talking with the museum curator and researcher to time-lapsing the streets of London – the young filmmakers project was five days packed full of fun, and new and exciting experiences. Working with Chocolate Films and staff […]
Jewish Museum shortlisted for Museum and Heritage Awards
We're thrilled to announce that the Jewish Museum's crowd-sourced exhibition Your Jewish Museum: Love has been shortlisted in the Museum and Heritage Awards 2016.
‘Pop-Up Talks’ launch this week!
by Kimberley Coates, Visitor Services and Volunteer Manager At the Jewish Museum we’re always looking for ways to help our visitors explore our amazing collection and develop our volunteer team. Our new Pop-Up Talks programme will comprise of a series of talks on objects chosen by the volunteers themselves. To develop this Roz Currie (Military Collections […]
Getting to know our visitors
by Milena Zettel, ARSP Volunteer and Museum Intern At the core of the Living Community gallery here at the Jewish Museum is a space that encourages visitors to share their thoughts and reflections on four diverse topics – Faith, Home, Community, and Identity – all of which are important themes in Judaism, Jewish history and […]
Uncovering Solomon Lever
by Jason Lever, Guest Blogger The most wonderful sight in the Jewish Museum London is the huge banner of the London Jewish Bakers Union (below) in the main foyer. Alright, I am biased. My great-uncle, Solomon Lever, was its general secretary for thirty years and Mayor of Hackney (1951/2). 2016 marks 57 years since Solomon […]
Walking in the footsteps of Vrba and Wetzler, Part 3
by Zoe Hilton-Webb and Max Martel, Vrba-Wetzler memorial march participants In August 2015, a group of people from all over the world gathered to walk from Auschwitz to Zilina, in memory of the arduous journey Rudolf Vrba and Jozef Lanik undertook after escaping Auschwitz concentration camp. Below are the accounts of two young walk participants – one […]
Walking in the footsteps of Vrba and Wetzler, Part 2
by Radek Hejret, organiser of the Vrba-Wetzler memorial march As we stood at the edge of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, approximately at the place where on 7 April 1944 two Slovak Jews, Walter Rosenberg (Rudolf Vrba) and Fredie Wetzler (Jozef Lanik), hid before they escaped from Auschwitz, the seventy year old Fedor Gal, initiator of the idea […]
Walking in the footsteps of Vrba and Wetzler, Part 1
by Zoe Hilton-Webb In March 2015 Gerta Vrbova spoke at the Jewish Museum London about her first husband, Rudolf Vrba, and his escape from Auschwitz concentration camp. This talk was one of the first in a series of events leading up to a memorial march from Auschwitz to Zilina in August 2015. Over the next few […]
Volunteer Trip to Dulwich Picture Gallery
by Kimberley Coates, Visitor Services and Volunteer Manager On Friday 15 January the Jewish Museum volunteers took a well-earned day off and, along with the Visitor Services Team (and curatorial reps), went on a day trip to Dulwich Picture Gallery. The trip celebrated our volunteer’s hard work over the past year: 2015 was the busiest […]
