The Jewish
Museum
in Prague

THE KLAUSEN SYNAGOGUE AND THE CEREMONIAL HALL ARE TEMPORARILY CLOSED

We would like to inform you about some provisional changes in the sightseeing tour of the Prague Jewish Town.  The current exhibition Jewish Customs and Traditions, which was opened in the 1990s, will be uninstalled as of July 1st, 2024, and the Klausen Synagogue and the Ceremonial Hall will be temporarily closed.
 In January 2024, our sightseeing tour was expanded to include the world renowned Old-New Synagogue, and now it will undergo further significant development in order to provide a first-class museum experience and ensure adequate comfort and safety. 

A new exhibition with the working title The Family Silver: Treasures of Czech, Moravian, and Silesian Jewish Communities will be prepared for the Ceremonial Hall as early as the end of 2025. You can look forward to the most precious artifacts from a rare collection of silver that is unparalleled on the European continent. 
 The reconstruction of the Klausen Synagogue will be more demanding in terms of time and investment, and we plan its reopening in 2028 at the latest. It will house a new core exhibition on Jewish customs and traditions, and we will also re-establish the post-war tradition of temporary exhibitions thematically related to Jewish life and legacy. 
Thank you for your understanding and support. We look forward to welcoming you in our new exhibitions.

 

FRANZ KAFKA´S YEAR

“Kafka100” is a year-long project of the Jewish Museum in Prague to mark the centenary of the death of Franz Kafka. It is a commemoration of the life and work of this world-renowned writer. We are pleased to invite you to this diverse cultural event for people of all ages. Check our website Kafka100.


 

EXHIBITION BY THE LEADING ISRAELI TYPOGRAPHER ODED EZER - ONE OF THE HIGHTLIGHTS OF "KAFKA100" 

On June 4 this year – which marks the centenary of the death of famed Prague writer Franz Kafka – the Robert Guttmann Gallery of the Jewish Museum in Prague will be launching an exhibition by the leading Israeli typographer and artist Oded Ezer. The installation, presented as mockumentary fiction, expands on the fantasy surrounding the protagonist of one of Kafka's most renowned stories. Gregor Samsa is portrayed as a forgotten literary prodigy whose writings have mysteriously vanished. Unlike Kafka, Samsa was not fortunate enough to have his manuscripts preserved, but Ezer takes his narrative even a step further by pointing out that the titles on the covers of twenty-four empty books are actually excerpts from the opening paragraph of The Metamorphosis, hinting at the possibility that Kafka himself might have appropriated Samsa's work.
More info at our press release.

STAY IN TOUCH THROUGH OUR DIGITAL CHANNELS

• have a look around our venues and permanent exhibitions:
  Klausen Synagogue - Ceremonial Hall - Maisel Synagogue - Pinkas Synagogue - Spanish Synagogue - Old Jewish Cemetery

• check out our on-line exhibitions  

• watch a documentary about the Jewish Museum in Prague

• browse our on-line collections catalogue

• take a journey behind the scenes - visit our restoration workshops and library

• read a flipbook about our planned new permanent exhibition Friedl's Cabinet: Children's drawings from Ghetto Theresienstadt