Memory Quilts – Giving History a Human Face
by Alice McDermott, Learning Team Intern During Alice’s time as a Learning Team Intern at the museum she worked on producing resource packs for our Memory Quilts: Triumph Over Adversity exhibition. These packs explore in depth the stories of some of the Holocaust survivors (’The Boys’) whose lives are represented on the quilts. Having spent […]
Cat Chat and Tiger Talk – What Visitors Thought of our Judith Kerr Exhibition
by Alice Quine, Assistant Curator As part of the museum’s exhibition on children’s author and illustrator Judith Kerr, visitors were encouraged to leave their thoughts and opinions on the exhibition. Little did we know this unsuspecting feedback book would be filled with a wonderful array of literary and artistic tributes to both Judith and her […]
Judeans under the floor
by Elisabeth Murray, Curatorial Intern Objects come into a museum in a variety of ways. Sometimes they are given only on loan (like most of the objects in our new crowd-sourced exhibition Sacrifice), occasionally they are purchased in an auction, which normally results in a few tense moments of bidding, and sometimes we get really […]
Animating the Museum
by Alice Quine, Assistant Curator Last month the Jewish Museum and Chocolate Films hosted a week-long animation workshop focusing on objects in our collection. During the week 17 young people, aged 12 to 21, got to look behind the scenes, exploring the museum stores and thinking about how museums collect objects. They then researched ten […]
The Battle of Waterloo
by Phoebe Newman, Museum Administrator Our recent partnership with the Jewish Military Museum has made us think in more depth about Jewish military history. A few weeks ago it was the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, so I had a rummage around to find some objects in our collection that reflect the Jewish involvement […]
End of Year Report
by Judith Vandervelde, Senior Educator Now the school year has come to an end, we are looking back at all the amazing workshops we have shared with over 14,000 students from schools across the country (and even further afield). This wordle illustrates the words most often used by teachers on feedback forms to describe our […]
The Tiger Who Came to High Tea
by Alice Quine, Assistant Curator For our recently opened exhibition on Judith Kerr I was tasked with acquiring wooden props for the Tiger Kitchen set. Little did I know that this fun, if slightly bizarre task would throw up a whole smorgasbord of mental mahogany meals. When I was a child, mud pies were the […]
Tiger, Mog and Pink Rabbit: A Judith Kerr Retrospective
Tiger, Mog and Pink Rabbit: A Judith Kerr Retrospective 29 June – 14 October 2015 Jewish Museum London 25 June 2015, London. Have tea with a life-size Tiger, curl up in Mog’s basket with one of Judith Kerr’s classic picture books, and discover the childhood drawings of a girl escaping Hitler’s Germany. Tiger, Mog and […]
What makes a good wedding?
by Alice Quine, Assistant Curator Our recent exhibition on Jewish weddings generated some rather interesting and often unbridled feedback from visitors. A wedding canopy, or Huppah, was constructed in the exhibition space where people could write about their favourite wedding experiences or what they think makes for a memorable marriage ceremony. Some of our favourites […]
