Jewish Museum Vienna
The Jewish Museum Vienna, run as Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien GmbH, is Austria's museum of Jewish history, culture and religion. It works from two houses in the city centre: the Palais Eskeles in Dorotheergasse and the Misrachi House on Judenplatz, where the excavated remains of the medieval synagogue are on show. Alongside its permanent displays on Jewish Vienna from the Middle Ages to the present, it runs a changing programme of temporary exhibitions and events on Jewish life past and present.
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A Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew - Eran Shakine
Barbara Staudinger, Hannes Sulzenbacher
The Israeli artist Eran Shakine (*1962) gives every one of his paintings the same title: “A Muslim, a Christian and a Jew…” – almost as if he were about to tell a joke. In his large-scale works, he humorously explores…
The Special Case of Steffy Goldner: The New York Philharmonic’s First Woman
In collaboration with the New York Philharmonic Archives, Nives Widauer created this work to honor the remarkable life of Steffy Goldner, the first woman member of the famous U.S. symphony orchestra. Goldner, born in…
No Way Home: Viennese Jews in Exile
After the “Anschluss” on March 12, 1938, Vienna became a model city for the systematic disenfranchisement and expulsion of Jews. In a short time, the third-largest Jewish community in Europe was decimated through…
Our City! Jewish Vienna - Then to Now
“Our City!” starts with the years from 1945 to the present on the ground floor. It describes the development, in spite of the unhelpfulness of Austrian post-war politicians, of an almost completely destroyed Jewish…
Our Medieval City! The First Jewish Community in Vienna
Judenplatz, right in the heart of Vienna, is a place where layers of Jewish history have built up over centuries. Beginning in the thirteenth century, a Jewish quarter with a magnificent synagogue took root here. Over…
Locations
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- Jüdisches Museum JudenplatzOpen in Google Maps
