Your Jewish Museum – Exhibiting Love and Journeys
by Carolyn Rosen, Project Manager for Your Jewish Museum It has been a delight and a privilege to manage the Your Jewish Museum exhibitions thus far. I’m very pleased with the reception of Your Jewish Museum: Love – it was a joy to see contributing lenders and artists come together at the opening event, sharing a bit […]
To Save or not to Save? Lessons of Practical Salvage
by Emma Davies, Head of Volunteering Last week I attended the English Heritage ‘Emergency Planning and Practical Salvage’ Course. This three day course, in conjunction with the West Midlands Fire Service, was aimed at museum, gallery and historic property staff who hold responsibility for both creating and implementing an Emergency Plan. Every museum team’s worst […]
Curator Q&A – For Richer For Poorer
with Elizabeth Selby, Curator of For Richer For Poorer: Weddings Unveiled What is your favourite object in the exhibition? There are so many! Probably the most intriguing and unique is a ledger that was kept by a shadchan (matchmaker) who was operating in the East End in the 1940s. It was quite usual for orthodox Jewish […]
The Jewish Military Museum arrives!
by Sarah Fairhurst, Assistant Curator (Jewish Military Museum) The wait is finally over! Many objects from the Jewish Military Museum have now been installed into the History Gallery at the Jewish Museum. This is something we at the JMM have been working towards for over 18 months and it was so exciting to see it […]
Partnering with the Jewish Military Museum
Yesterday was a wonderful and historic day at the museum, as we agreed our partnership with the Jewish Military Museum. The Jewish Museum London will assume care and responsibility for the Jewish Military Museum’s entire collection of over 4,000 objects and its learning programme. (L to R): Roz Currie, Curator of the Jewish Military Museum; Rt […]
LOVE… how do we celebrate, seal and remember it?
L to R: Boris Bennett, Wedding photograph of Mr and Mrs Simmons, 1935; 18th century wedding ring; Ketubah (marriage contract) 1806 Lend your own treasures to be displayed alongside ours in new exhibition series, Your Jewish Museum, beginning in January. Your object can speak to any type of love: divine, parental, romantic. Anything! Let the pieces above […]
Work Experience at the Jewish Museum
by Tania Shew, Work Experience Student Tania has just completed her first year at the University of Sussex where she is studying History. She spent a few weeks with the learning team during a very hectic month of school visits: As a history student I was very excited to be offered an internship at the […]
Obscuratorial Finds – Why do we have so many…?
by Alice Quine, Curatorial Assistant While the museum holds a lot of quirky and fun objects, it is also home to many items of great historical importance. Though a large proportion of this collection is comprised of paper documents, accounts and records, it is the unique aesthetics of the objects that I feel hold the […]
My favourite Jewish Museum object
by Barbara Brown, Museum Volunteer On going to the Religion Gallery one day I found a woman standing in front of the display of Hanukah lamps with tears pouring down her face. I put my arm round her and she pointed to the wooden one and said, simply, “My grandfather made it." The wooden lamp […]
Happy International Workers’ Day! To mark the occasion we have turned around our beloved London Jewish Bakers’ Union banner to display the Yiddish side (rather than the English side) for a limited time. The London Jewish Bakers’ Union was one of the longest lived Jewish trade unions, operating from 1905 to 1970, and this painted […]
