List of Jewish museums explained

A Jewish museum is a museum which focuses upon Jews and may refer seek to explore and share the Jewish experience in a given area.

Notable Jewish museums include:

Albania

• Solomon Museum, Berat

Australia

• Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne, Victoria
• Sydney Jewish Museum

Austria

• Jewish Museum Vienna
• Austrian Jewish Museum, Eisenstadt
• Jewish Museum of Hohenems

Belarus

• Museum of Jewish History and Culture in Belarus

Belgium

• Jewish Museum of Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Museum of the Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Muzej Jevreja Bosne i Hercegovine) in Sarajevo

Brazil

• Jewish Museum of São Paulo

Canada

• Montreal Holocaust Museum
• Jewish Heritage Centre (Winnipeg)
• Saint John Jewish Historical Museum in New Brunswick

China

• Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum

Czech Republic

• Jewish Museum in Prague

Denmark

• Danish Jewish Museum, Copenhagen

France

• Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, (Museum of Jewish Art and History), Paris, and its predecessor Musée d'Art Juif
• Musée judéo-alsacien de Bouxwiller, Bouxwiller, Bas-Rhin

Georgia

• David Baazov Museum of History of Jews of Georgia, Tbilisi

Germany

• Jewish Museum Berlin
• Jewish Museum Emmendingen
• Jewish Museum Frankfurt
• Jewish Museum Munich

Greece

• Jewish Museum of Greece, Athens
• Jewish Museum of Rhodes
• Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki

Guatemala

• Museum of the Holocaust (Guatemala) in Guatemala City

Hungary

• Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives, Budapest
• Miskolc Jewish Museum and Visitor's Center, Miskolc

Ireland

• Irish Jewish Museum, Dublin

Israel

See also: List of Israeli museums.

Italy

• Palazzo Pannolini, Bologna
• Synagogue of Casale Monferrato
• Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah, Ferrara
• Jewish Museum of Florence
• Jewish Museum of Rome
• Jewish Museum of Venice
• Jewish Museum Carlo e Vera Wagner, Trieste

Latvia

• Jews in Latvia (museum), Riga

Lithuania

• Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum (Vilnius)

Morocco

• Moroccan Jewish Museum, Casablanca
• Beit Yehuda Museum, Tangier

Netherlands

• Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam

Norway

• Jewish Museum in Oslo

Poland

• Galicia Jewish Museum (Kraków)
• POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Warsaw)
• Warsaw Ghetto Museum
• The Judaica collection of Maksymilian Goldstein, once an independent museum, now part of the collection of the Lviv Crafts Museum

Portugal

• Belmonte Jewish Museum
• Portuguese Jewish Museum

Romania

• Jewish Museum (Bucharest)
• Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Muzeon - Jewish History Museum (Cluj)

Russia

• Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow

Serbia

• Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade

Slovakia

• Museum of Jewish Culture, Bratislava

Spain

• Palace of the Forgotten, Granada
• Sephardic Museum (Granada)
• Sephardic Museum, Toledo

Sweden

• Jewish Museum of Sweden

Switzerland

• Jewish Museum of Switzerland, Basel

Turkey

• Jewish Museum of Turkey, Istanbul

Ukraine

• Museum of the History of Odesa Jews, Odesa
• Museum of Jewish History and the Holocaust in Ukraine in Menorah center, Dnipro.

United Kingdom

• Jewish Museum London, England
• Manchester Jewish Museum, England

United States

• Jewish History Museum (Tucson), Tucson, Arizona
• Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Berkeley, California
• Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California
• The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
• Jewish Children's Museum, Brooklyn, New York
• Herbert & Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica at Congregation Emanu-El of New York, Manhattan, New York
• Jewish Museum (Manhattan), Manhattan, New York
• Museum of Jewish Heritage, Manhattan, New York
• National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Lillian & Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum Washington DC
• Jewish Museum Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• William Breman Jewish Heritage & Holocaust Museum, Atlanta, Georgia

See also

• List of Holocaust memorials and museums