Work experience blog: Alexandra
I’m Alexandra and I’m doing a placement here in the Jewish Museum’s Learning Department. At the Jewish Museum you get to do many varied tasks that involve jumping into the action but also time to do administration.
Wiley women and Eating our Ego: Passover CDP at the Jewish Museum
Why is Moses the hero of the Passover story? His mother should be the hero!’ Year 3 student. In April we had our annual staff Passover celebrations/ training, and as the organiser I got to pick the theme! I chose to focus mainly on women, as there are an unusually large number of named women who do incredible things in the story of Passover.
Pride in our collection
By Hannah and Zara, work experience students in the Learning Team. During Pride month, we have been considering what it is to be part of both an LGBT+ and a Jewish community and the intersection between them, by looking at images within our collection. We have been looking at different images, the first ones […]
Investigating the Isaac Family
By Karen Van Coevorden Following on from Emma’s blog about Esther Rafer, another family which we have explored at our recent Curious Minds workshops is the Isaacs family. Using a series of photographs and objects from our collection, we set individuals the challenge of trying to piece together an understanding of the Isaac family history. We […]
Esther Rafer and the Jewish East End
By Emma Crew When planning our Curious Minds sessions for people living with dementia we decided to include objects and photographs relating to specific people who lived in the Jewish East End. I chose to show some of our items linked to Esther Rafer. Her descendant Sheila donated a fascinating collection of items from her […]
To Bake or Buy: The Challah Question
Everyone knows that a freshly baked challah loaf is one of the best tastes there is but alas it turns out that many of our staff lack basic baking skills (myself included!) and therefore are forced to have to buy our challah bread each week. To challenge ourselves the Learning Team organised for a few […]
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 […]
School Reunion with the Jewish Deaf Association
by Josie Roberts, Learning Officer Last Sunday the Learning Team went to Nightingale House in Wandsworth, former home of the Residential School for Jewish Deaf Children, where the Jewish Deaf Association were hosting possibly their last school reunion. The school itself closed in 1965. We attended the event to showcase some of our objects that […]
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 […]
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 […]
