Jewish Museum London is now delivering our learning programmes and collections displays in the community & around the UK. Come and visit us at Swiss Cottage Library from 7 March to 4 April.

Private Virtual Event for Friends and Volunteers: The Workers Circle Friendly Society – analysing membership in the late 1960s/early 1970s

Earlier this year the museum discovered a set of over 200 membership cards relating to The Workers Circle Friendly Society in the mid-20th century. Work began to catalogue and analyse the information held within the cards; by gathering together this data into a simplified spreadsheet, we are now able to discover the ages, occupations, family sizes and social situations of society members during this time.

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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.

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JFS – A Four Sites Saga

By David Harris, longstanding volunteer, who was previously a teacher and deputy head at JFS for 29 years. JFS started as Jews’ Free School in the 1730’s in Dukes Place […]

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Private Moses Jakob Kasser

by Susan Gordon, Jewish Military Museum Volunteer Today is World Refugee Day, a time to commemorate the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees. We are remembering Private Moses Jakob […]

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‘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. […]

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