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“TRANSATLANTIC KAFKA”: THE JEWISH MUSEUM IN PRAGUE IS PREPARING A FOUR-DAY EVENT FULL OF DISCUSSIONS AND TALKS THAT WILL HIGHLIGHT AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE WORK OF FRANZ KAFKA

From June 17 to 20, the Jewish Museum in Prague will be inviting both local and international visitors to a series of seven talks and discussions centered around the ideas of Franz Kafka in a present-day context. More information

TORAH SHIELD THAT WAS TO HAVE BEEN SOLD AT SOTHEBY´S IS RETURNED TO THE JEWISH MUSEUM IN PRAGUE

 The shield was made as part of a pair of very similar items commissioned by Leopold and Rosalie Schmolka in 1886. It was donated to the synagogue in the small town of Dolní Kralovice in Central Bohemia, which was probably built on the site of an earlier building dating from 1717.
 

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: THE BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HALL ANNUAL LECTURE ON THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF JEWS IN THE CZECH AND SLOVAK LANDS

The Jewish Museum in Prague – in co-operation with the Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews (www.shcsj.org) and the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York – invites applicants to submit their topic proposals for the Bohemian National Hall Annual Lecture on the History and Culture of Jews in the Czech and Slovak Lands. More information

THE JEWISH MUSEUM IN PRAGUE CALLS ON THE PUBLIC TO HELP IN THE SEARCH FOR LOST BOOKS

The Jewish Museum in Prague has recently launched the Czech part of the Library of Lost Books project, which aims to find lost books from the Library of the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, Berlin. The Jewish Museum and the Leo Baeck Institutes in Jerusalem and London, together with other institutions from throughout the world, are seeking to virtually reconstruct this library, which was  destroyed by the Nazis during the Second World War. More information

INVITATION TO THE ONLINE EXHIBITION "SOUVENIRS FROM THE SEA"

The collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague also contains a small and rather curious group of objects in the form of sea snail shells with etched inscriptions in Hebrew. More information

NEW ISSUE OF JUDAICA BOHEMIAE OUT NOW

A new monothematic issue of the journal Judaica Bohemiae (Vol. 58/2023) came out at the end of December 2023 as a collaboration between the Jewish Museum in Prague and the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague. More information

The study rooms of the Archives and Shoah Documentation Department: Closing Days

The study room of the Archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague will be closed to the public from the 18^th of December until the 29^th December 2023. The study room of the Shoah Documentation Department will be closed to the public from the 25^th of December until the 29^th December 2023. More information

GERTRUD KAUDERS IS NOW PART OF THE PERMANENT COLLECTION AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM IN PRAGUE

After several years of negotiations, the Jewish Museum in Prague is about to receive a substantial portion of a unique trove of art that was discovered in the spring of 2018.

Pavla Niklová - the new Director of the Jewish Museum in PraguePavla Niklová - the new Director of the Jewish Museum in Prague

As of July 1st, 2023, Pavla Niklová has become the new Director of the Jewish Museum in Prague. Previously she served as the Executive Director of the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation in New York. More information

THE FIRST SERIES OF NFTs FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE JEWISH MUSEUM IN PRAGUE NOW AVAILABLE

The Jewish Museum in Prague is one of the first Czech museums to launch its own series of NFTs. More information

SIX LARGE CANVASES BY CLEVE GRAY NEWLY ACCESSIONED TO THE COLLECTION OF THE JEWISH MUSEUM IN PRAGUE

Six large format canvases by American artist Cleve Gray (September 22, 1918, New York, NY— December 8, 2004, Hartford, CT). More information

U.S. DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE WENDY RUTH SHERMAN VISITS THE JEWISH MUSEUM IN PRAGUE

On December 11,2022, US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Ruth Sherman visited Prague on her trip to Europe. More information

THE JEWS IN BOHEMIA, Vol. 8

A compilation of papers from the eighth seminar on the history of the Jews in Bohemia, which was held in Jindřichův Hradec on the 12th and 13th of October 2021 by the Jewish Museum in Prague in association with the Museum of Jindřichův Hradec.
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NEW ISSUE OF JUDAICA BOHEMIAE OUT NOW

A new issue of the journal Judaica Bohemiae (Vol. 57/2022, 2) came out at the end of December 2022. More information

GALA CONCERT IN COMMEMORATION OF THE HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY IN THE SPANISH SYNAGOGUE

On Thursday, 26 January 2023, on the occasion of the commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Jewish Museum in Prague, in cooperation with the Jewish Community of Prague and with the financial support from the Foundation for Holocaust Victims, organized a gala concert in the Spanish Synagogue. More information

Reading room and library closed in December

Please note that the library will be closed on 27– 30 December 2022.  The reading room will also be closed on 22-30 December 2022.. The multimedia center remains closed for operational reasons. Thank you for your understanding
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HELGA HOŠKOVÁ-WEISSOVÁ: NOBODY EXPECTED US

On Tuesday, November 8, 2022, the Maisel Synagogue hosted a gala presentation of the autobiography of Helga Hošková-Weissová. More information

THE RETURN OF FOUR SYNAGOGUE TEXTILES TO THE COLLECTIONS OF THE JEWISH MUSEUM IN PRAGUE

At the beginning of this June, experts from the Jewish Museum in Prague – as part of their systematic monitoring of the global art market – discovered that four items on sale at the auction house in New York had passed through the museum’s collections during the Nazi occupation and had disappeared in the post-war period. More information

The War in Ukraine: The Jewish Museum in Prague offers a helping hand

The Jewish Museum in Prague will be providing Ukrainian refugees with free access to its exhibitions, and the Jewish Community of Prague will be giving them free access to the Old-New Synagogue (Altneuschul). This reflects the museum’s decision to become involved in the care of refugees in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In addition, the museum is prepared to help safeguard Ukrainian museum collections and to provide expert curatorial assistance and assistance in handling collection objects. More information

EVACUATION OF COLLECTIONS FROM UKRAINE

The Jewish Museum in Prague is prepared to help safeguard Ukrainian museum collections. More information

Travelling Exhibition: I Have Not Seen Another Butterfly Around Here: Children’s Drawings from Terezín Ghetto

In October 2021 the South African Holocaust & Genocide received the pop-up travelling exhibition entitled I Have Not Seen Another Butterfly Around Here: Children’s Drawings from Terezín Ghetto. The exhibition, in collaboration with the Embassy of the Czech Republic and the Jewish Museum in Prague, focuses the art and poetry of Jewish children incarcerated in the Terezín Ghetto in Czechoslovakia during World War II. More information

HELP FOR UKRAINIAN REFUGEES

The Jewish Museum in Prague will provide Ukrainian refugees with free access to its exhibitions, and the Jewish Community of Prague will give them free access to the Old-New Synagogue (Altneuschul). More information

Award for the Jewish Museum in Prague at the 19th Gloria Musaealis National Museum Competition

The results of the 19th Gloria Musaealis National Museum Competition were recently announced in the Smetana Hall, Municipal House, Prague. This prestigious competition is organized jointly by the Czech Ministry of Culture, the Association of Museums and Galleries in the Czech Republic, and the Czech Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). In the “Museum Achievement of the Year” category, the Jewish Museum in Prague received a special award – among the six highest rated entries – for its reconstruction of the Spanish Synagogue and its new exhibition that is housed there (“Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 19th–20th Centuries”). In this category, the jury selected among 25 institutions that had entered the competition. More information

The Forgotten

The poem was written by 14 old Zdenek Ornest, one of the children imprisoned in the Theresienstadt Ghetto (Terezin Concentration Camp), melody by Israeli musician Effi Shoshani.

The legacy of those murdered deserves our support – The Jewish Museum in Prague in the pandemic

The legacy of those murdered deserves our support – The Jewish Museum in Prague in the pandemic

The Spanish Synagogue reopening to the public after reconstruction – with a new exhibition that charts the last 200 years of Jewish history in the Bohemian lands

After more than a year and a half of reconstruction, the Jewish Museum in Prague will be re-opening the Spanish Synagogue to the public on Wednesday, 16 December. At a cost of several tens of millions of Czech crowns, the ambitious reconstruction has expanded the exhibition space to provide an additional 600 square metres. Among other things, it has provided barrier-free access to all of the synagogue’s three floor areas. Following on from the previous show at the synagogue, a new modern exhibition (“Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 19th–20th Centuries”) has been put together as part of the reconstruction project. The focus of the new exhibition is on the history and culture of the local Jewish community between the 19th and 20th centuries. The architecturally unique Spanish Synagogue will continue to be used as a venue for separate evening programs, in particular for concerts of classical music. More information

The synagogues overseen by the Jewish Museum in Prague are among the Czech Republic’s most visited sacred sites

The synagogues overseen by the Jewish Museum in Prague are among the Czech Republic’s most visited sacred sites. According to a recently published report by the government’s tourist agency CzechTourism, the two most visited sacred sites in 2019 were the Pinkas and Klausen synagogues. More information

Notice of a planned closure of the depositories housing the Jewish Museum's collections of textiles.

The Jewish Museum in Prague will be limiting access to the depositories that house its collection of textiles (curated by Milan Jančo) for a period of about two months as of 1 May 2020 in order to conduct periodic inventories. During this time, the objects in these collections will not be made available for any use – i.e., for taking out of or placing in the depositories, lending, digitization, condition appraisal, study/research purposes, or for the provision of information that is not otherwise available in our database or in our other registers and documentation resources. We will let you know in advance of the reopening of these depositories on our website. We apologize for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your understanding.

State of From Generation To... Interview Project

The Jewish Museum in Prague and Mr. Robert B. Fried agreed to continue their cooperation on the Interview Project "From Generation To..." in 2020.
 
The goal of this project is to collect personal accounts of the Shoah survivors from former Czechoslovakia. Mr. Fried´s ongoing support makes it possible to increase the number of interviews that constitute a valuable testimony of this dark period in history. Thanks to Mr Fried’s generous 2018 donation we were able to record and process 6 interviews (in the United States, New Zealand and Israel).  
 
In 2019 our work continued with another 55 recorded testimonies, out of which 33 were with narrators from the Czech Republic, 17 from Israel, 3 from the USA and 1 from the UK and from Australia, respectively. Our project in Australia has of late been temporarily suspended due to difficulties incurred as a result of the current climate situation.  We hope the situation will improve soon and we will be able to continue to interview first generation witnesses in Sydney and Melbourne.
 
In 2020 we would like to continue with the recording of Shoah survivors in the all before mentioned territories and record close to the same number of testimonies as in 2019. More information

Temporary closure of the study room of the Museum Archive

Please note that the  study room of the Archive of the Jewish Museum in Prague will be closed between 30 December 2019 - 3 January 2020. Thank you for your understanding.

Prague Education and Culture Department closed on 27 December

Please note that the Prague Education and Culture Department of the Jewish Museum in Prague will be closed on 27 December, 2019.

Thank you for your understanding,

Jewish Museum in Prague More information

Temporary closures of selected exhibition venues due to planned power outages

Please note that due to power grid reconstruction in the area of Prague 1, planned power shutoffs will affect visitor access to these permanent exhibitions at the following times:
 
Pinkas Synagogue
For operational and safety reasons the Pinkas Synagogue is closed to the public.
Wed 27 November 2019
The old Jewish cemetery remains open. Use the gate from Široká Street to enter the Old Jewish Cemetery.

 
We apologize for any inconvenience.
 
Thank you for your understanding,
 
Jewish Museum in Prague

Wear a poppy as a symbol of respect for war veterans

The Jewish Museum in Prague supports the 2019 Veterans’ Day remembrance poppy collection. Please join us. More information

Temporary closures of selected exhibition venues due to planned power outages

Please note that due to power grid reconstruction in the area of Prague 1, planned power shutoffs will affect visitor access to these permanent exhibitions at the following times:
 
Klausen Synagogue 
Fri 22 November from 8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Mon 25 November from 8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. and from 1:15 p.m. to do 1:30 p.m.

Ceremonial Hall
Mon 25 November from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
 
Pinkas Synagogue
Wed 27 November from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
 
We apologize for any inconvenience.
 
Thank you for your understanding,
 
Jewish Museum in Prague

Visit our new exhibition at the Robert Guttmann Gallery

7 November 2019 - 23 August 2020 | Robert Guttmann – The Prague Wanderer
 
An exhibition of works by the popular early 20th century Prague naive painter Robert Guttmann featuring Guttmann’s paintings and drawings from the collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague, as well as period photographs and documents which the museum has managed to collect over the years. In the inter-war period Guttmann was better known in Prague for his distinct appearance than for his pictures – a thin figure with a large head, handlebar moustache and rich mane of dark black hair, wearing a blue velvet jacket and an enormous green cravat.
 
Guttmann sketched pictures in bars and cafés and even on the train, selling them without much ado for a few crowns to anyone who was interested. Hardly anyone at the time, however, thought that his work had any genuine artistic value. It attracted attention only for its eccentric and unusual qualities. The pictures provide an insight into a secluded, sensitive soul which was drawn to nature, to the integrity of childhood and to a profound faith. Guttmann’s eccentricity and defiance may have been a way of protecting his fragile, sensitive world from outside encroachment. As an artist, he refused to be a mere reproducer of reality and defended his right to his own creative self-expression.  
 
The Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 put an end to the genial world Guttmann had known. On 16 October 1941 Guttmann was put on the first transport from Prague to the Lodz/Litzmannstadt ghetto. Ghetto life must have been incomprehensible to Guttmann, a person who had criss-crossed half of Europe on foot. Robert Guttmann died of hunger and exhaustion in the ghetto on 14 March 1942.

Robert Guttmann Gallery, U Staré školy 3, Prague 1

Open daily, except Saturdays and other Jewish holidays 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. (summer time) and 9 a.m. – 4.30 p.m. (winter time)
 

Kizur ma’avar Yabbok – Missing manuscript from the property of the Nikolsburg Burial Society

Following years of as yet fruitless efforts to have it restored to its rightful owner (the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic), the Hebrew illuminated manuscript Kizur ma’avar Yabbok was recently entered into the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste (German Lost Art Foundation) database containing information on illegally seized and missing cultural assets. A rare example of the so-called Moravian school of Hebrew illumination, the manuscript was commissioned in 1748 by the members of the chevra kaddisha (burial society) of the Jewish Community in Nikolsburg (Mikulov).
 
The manuscript, missing since the beginning of the Nazi occupation in 1938, next appeared in the U.S. in September 2010 in the hands of a private posssessor. Since then the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic has made efforts to get the manuscript restituted to the collection of heritage objects of the Nikolsburg community, part of the collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague since 1942.
 
The efforts to return the manuscript to the Czech Republic are described in detail in an article published on 29 September 2018 in the Lidové noviny daily (in Czech) and in a 2017 Cambridge conference paper.
 
The current whereabouts of the illegally kept manuscript are unknown.

Notice to the visitors of the Museum's Education and Culture Dept. in Brno

Please note that the Museum's Education and Culture Dept. in Brno will be closed to public 29-30 October, 2019.

Thank you for your understanding.

Jewish Museum in Prague
 

Notice to visitors of Jewish Museum in Prague

Please note that the permanent exhibition Ceremonial Hall will be closed on Wed 2 October, 2019, for planned maintenance. 

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Thank you for your understanding and co-operation,

Jewish Museum in Prague

Notice to visitors of Information and Reservation Centre

Please note that the Information and Reservation Centre (IRC) of the Jewish Museum in Prague in Maiselova st. 15, Prague 1, will be undergoing repairs between 30 September - 22 October, 2019.

Between 30 September - 15 October, the public toilets for both males and females will be out of service. Clients can make use of the accessible toilet, or the toilets at the Ceremonial Hall and the Maisel Synagogue, respectively. 
 
Between 14 - 22 October, the accessible toilet will be out of service. Clients with special needs can make use of the accessible toilet at the Maisel Synagogue.

We apologise for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.

Jewish Museum in Prague

Gratias Agit Award for Mark Podwal

On June 14, 2019, long-term supporter of the Jewish Museum in Prague, Mark Podwal (U.S.) received the Gratias Agit Award for the promotion of the good name of the Czech Republic abroad. Gratias Agit has been awarded by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic since 1997 in appreciation of prominent personalities and organizations developing activities in non-governmental fields. Congratulations!

Notice to visitors of the Old Jewish Cemetery

Renovation works are underway in the Old Jewish Cemetery’s exit area from 17 June till mid-July. For visitor safety, an alternative visitor route around the cemetery will be used at times with an exit to the Široká street (see map below).

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Thank you for your understanding and co-operation,

Jewish Museum in Prague

Statement by Rob Fried

Rob Fried, sponsor of the Jewish Museum in Prague interview project "From Generation To..." recently published the following personal statement. The Jewish Museum in Prague endorses his text by sharing it here.

President of the European Council visited the Museum

A European Council delegation led by President of the European Council Mr Donald Tusk visited the Jewish Museum in Prague on 8 May, 2019, accompanied by the museum director Leo Pavlát.

The Spanish Synagogue is temporarily closed from 1 June 2019 for planned revitalization

Visitors to the Jewish Museum in Prague had until the end of May 2019 to view the Spanish Synagogue and its exhibition on the history of Jews in Bohemia and Moravia in the 19th–20th centuries. The synagogue will now undergo partial repair and restoration work. It will reopen to the public in the last quarter of 2020 with a new permanent exhibition, including interactive elements and modern visitor facilities.

Museum closed on April 21

Dear visitor,

Museum will be closed on April 21 due to Jewish holiday.

Thank you for understanding

„Drawings from Elsewhere…“ Solo exhibition of Jaroslav Róna opened 6 March 2019

A new temporary exhibition by Jaroslav Róna (*1957), a renowned Czech sculptor and painter, opened at the museum's Robert Guttmann Gallery on 6 March. 

On show is a set of drawings from 2012-2018 which gives us an opportunity to delve more deeply into the artist's world. The exhibition will run until 6 October 2019.

Robert Guttmann Gallery, U Staré školy 3, Prague 1
Open daily except for Saturdays and other Jewish holidays,
winter time 9 a.m. - 4.30 p.m., summer time 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

„Drawings from Elsewhere…“ Solo exhibition of Jaroslav Róna from 7 March 2019 at the Jewish Museum in Prague

Between 7 March 2019 - 6 October 2019, visitors to the museum's Robert Guttmann Gallery can visit a new temporary exhibition by Jaroslav Róna (*1957), a renowned Czech sculptor and painter.  On show is a set of drawings from 2012-2018 which gives us an opportunity to delve more deeply into the artist's world.

Robert Guttmann Gallery, U Staré školy 3, Prague 1
Open daily except for Saturdays and other Jewish holidays,
winter time 9 a.m. - 4.30 p.m., summer time 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Gala concert in the Spanish Synagogue

On 28 January 2019, the Jewish Museum held its annual concert for International Holocaust Remembrance Day in association with the Prague Jewish Community and the Foundation for Holocaust Victims.
The opening words were given by Leo Pavlát, director of the Jewish Museum in Prague, and Michal Borges, secretary of the Prague Jewish Community (on behalf of Jan Munk, chairman of the Prague Jewish Community). Works by Antonín Rejcha, Maurice Ravel and Pavel Haas were performed by the Belfiato Quintet.

OPENING HOURS OF THE JEWISH MUSEUM IN PRAGUE HAVE BEEN CHANGED

Due to transition to winter time

The archive of the Shoah History Department of the Jewish Museum in Prague will be closed during August

Please note that the archive of the Shoah History Department of the Jewish Museum in Prague will be closed during August. Thank you for your understanding.

Notice to visitors of the Pinkas Synagogue

Notice of early closure on June 27, 2018

Planned closure of depositories housing 3D objects

Important notice of a planned closure of the depositories housing the Jewish Museum's collections of textiles, metal and other three-dimensional objects
 
The Jewish Museum in Prague will be limiting access to the depositories that house its collection of textiles (curated by Dana Veselská) and its collection of metal and other three-dimensional objects (curated by Jaroslav Kuntoš) for a period of about three months as of 1 July 2018 in order to conduct periodic inventories. During this time, the objects in these collections will not be made available for any use – i.e., for taking out of or placing in the depositories, lending, digitization, condition appraisal, study/research purposes, or for the provision of information that is not otherwise available in our database or in our other registers and documentation resources. We will let you know in advance of the reopening of these depositories on our website. We apologize for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your understanding.

Change in the opening hours of the Multimedia Centre

As of 1 March, 2018, the opening hours of the Multimedia Centre of the Jewish Museum in Prague will be as follows:

Monday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Wednesday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Friday 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

"My Cup of Kafka..."

An exhibition of drawings, prints and paintings by Jiří Slíva launches at the Jewish Museum in Prague.

Missing Rare Print Returned to the Jewish Museum in Prague

Measures taken jointly by he Jewish Museum in Prague and the NYC based auction house Kestenbaum & Co.  led to the successful restitution of a rare print dating from 16th century which had been missing from the library collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague. On Tuesday, January 16, 2018 in the Auditorium of the Education and Culture Centre of the Jewish Museum in Prague, a restitution ceremony took place. Daniel E. Kestenbaum of Kestenbaum & Company, a specialist auction house based in New York City specializing in the sale of Western and Oriental books, manuscripts and fine Judaica, returned to Leo Pavlat, Director of the Jewish Museum in Prague, a rare book printed almost 500 years ago belonging to the Jewish Community of Prague: Mikneh Avram-Peculium Abrae by Abraham de Balmes, printed in Venice in 1523. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) and the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) supported the restitution. Dr. Wesley A. Fisher, Head of Claims Conference-WJRO Looted Art participated in the ceremony.

Opening hours of the Jewish museum in Prague have been changed

Due to transition to winter time

Museum visit by a member of the Israeli government

Mr Ofir Akunis, member of the Knesset and Minister of Science, Technology and Space of the State of Israel visited the Jewish Museum in Prague on 25 June accompanied by his cabinet staff and representatives of the Prague embassy of the State of Israel.

Visit by a delegation of the European Court of Human Rights

A delegation of the European Court of Human Rights led by President Guido Raimondi visited the Jewish Museum in Prague on 20 June, 2017, accompanied by President of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic Pavel Rychetský and museum director Leo Pavlát.

Frans Timmermans and Lubomír Zaorálek in our museum

Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European Commission, accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Lubomir Zaorálek, visited the Jewish Museum in Prague on 15 June, 2017.

Ronald S. Lauder visited our museum

Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress and founder of the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation which supports the Prague Jewish kindergarten, elementary school and grammar school,
visited the Jewish Museum in Prague on 13 June, 2017, accompanied by the museum director Leo Pavlát.

Ambassador of the Republic of Korea visited our museum

Ambassador of the Republic of (South) Korea to the Czech Republic H. E. Moon Seoung-Hyun visited the Jewish Museum in Prague on 20 April, 2017.

Museum visit by the American Jewish Committee

As part of its Prague mission, an American Jewish Committee delegation led by the Committee’s president David Harris visited the Jewish Museum in Prague on 31 March, 2017.

Through the Labyrinth of Normalization (Press Release)

New exhibition of the Jewish Museum in Prague opens 1 April, 2017.

Deputies to the Knesset visited Jewish Museum in Prague

On 15 March the museum was visited by a deputies to the Knesset delegation led by the chair of the Interparliamentary Group of Friends Israel – Czech Republic Ms Aliza Lavie.

EHRI Newsletter – January 2017

January newsletter of EHRI project (The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) can be found here: https://ehri-project.eu/ehri-newsletters/january-2017.

Quo Vadis Central Europe?

Forum 2000 and the Jewish Museum in Prague invite you to the Maisel Synagogue for an international debate. More information

The story of Stranded in Shanghai continues after the exhibition

Appealing to the public to inform us about other relevant documents

Statement of the Jewish Museum in Prague

Statement of the Jewish Museum in Prague on the game Pokémon GO

New online exhibition on the website of the Jewish Museum in Prague

"I no longer have to be afraid of my neighbours": the life of Ivana Beranová (Fantlová) and her family

New permanent exhibition in the Maisel Synagogue opens to the public

The Maisel Synagogue in Prague, one of the dominant buildings of the former Jewish Town of Prague, will reopen to the public on the 1st of July 2015, after being closed for more than a year. The Jewish Museum in Prague – which includes the synagogue in its tour route – carried out preservation and restoration work on the synagogue over the last year and prepared a new permanent exhibition for its numerous visitors.

YOM HA-SHOAH 28 April 2014

YOM HA-SHOAH 28 April 2014
9.30 a.m., Pinkas Synagogue
2-5 p.m., Peace Square, Prague 2 More information

THE JEWISH MUSEUM IN PRAGUE WAS AWARDED 2015 TRIPADVISOR TRAVELERS' CHOICE AWARD AND CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENCE

The Jewish Museum in Prague was recognized as one of the top performing museums as reviewed by travelers on the world’s largest travel site 

A new exhibition at the Robert Guttmann Gallery

STRANDED IN SHANGHAI: THE HONGKEW GHETTO THROUGH THE EYES OF REFUGEES AND THE LENS OF ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN

The concert of Yossi Arnheim and Barbora Plachá is cancelled

Concert planned for Wednesday 11 May at the Maisel synagogue is cancelled due to sudden illness of one of the performers

CollectiveAccess - planned unavailability time

Please note that the CollectiveAccess system of the Jewish Museum in Prague including the public collection catalogue will be unavailable between 5 and 6 March 2016 to allow for scheduled maintenance. We are sorry for any inconvenience.

Jewish Museum in Prague is launching the EHRI Document blog

In a cooperation within EHRI project (European Holocaust Research Infrastracture) a new EHRI Document blog has been launched on 27th January 2016 accesible on a website: https://blog.ehri-project.eu/

FRAGMENT OF A RARE MISSING HEBREW MANUSCRIPT RETURNS TO THE JEWISH MUSEUM IN PRAGUE

The Jewish Museum in Prague is pleased to announce that measures taken by the Israeli Police, the Czech Police and Interpol led to the successful completion of the process of returning a fragment of a rare Hebrew manuscript – the Pinkas of the Kyjov/Gaya Jewish Community, dating from 1654-1854, which was stolen from the archive collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague on the 30th of January 2007. The fragment of the rare manuscript travelled back to the Czech Republic with the help of the Embassy of the Czech Republic to the State of Israel and was personally handed over to the museum’s director Mr Leo Pavlát by the Czech ambassador to the State of Israel Mr Ivo Schwarz.

“From Testimony to Story. Video Interviews about Nazi Crimes: Perspectives and Experiences in Four Countries” has been published

The book is available online for free

EHRI Newsletter

Read the last issue of the EHRI project newsletter 

Grant for digitization project Jewish Council Archives in Europe

A consortium of seven European archive and research institutes including the Jewish Museum in Prague received a grant from the Claims Conference for the two-year digitization project Jewish Council Archives in Europe.  More information

EHRI Fellowship Call 2016-2018

EHRI (The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) invites applications for its fellowship programme (2016-2018).

A tribute to Jiří Fiedler

The eBook Archivist on a Bicycle: Jiří Fiedler edited by Helen Epstein and Wilma Iggers, is available free of charge in memory of Jiří Fiedler, who was murdered in Prague last year.

Preparation for re-opening the Maisel Synagogue

The Maisel Synagogue will be re-open on 1st July 2015! More information

The Jewish Museum in Prague retrieves a missing 1901 Torah mantle

A lost Torah mantle from 1901 which came to the museum during the Second World War and disappeared from its collections after the war has been successfully brought back to the Czech Republic. More information

The Auschwitz Album

Prague City Gallery, House of Photography, Revoluční 1006/5, Prague 1, More information

STATEMENT OF THE JEWISH MUSEUM IN PRAGUE ON THE SECURING OF A FRAGMENT OF A MISSING HEBREW MANUSCRIPT BY THE ISRAELI POLICE ON 1 APRIL 2015

Press release

Information and reservation centre open on Saturday

Dear visitors,

our  Information and reservation centre will be open on Saturday, 28th March 2015.
You have chance to buy tickets for Sunday and following days with 10% discount and get more information about our museum.

We look forward to your visit. More information

Museum archives reopened

The archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague are open again.

Temporary Exhibition Shattered Hopes

Robert Gutmann Gallery

Important notice of a planned closure of part of the Jewish Museum's Visual Arts Depository

Due to reconstruction work, we will be limiting access to the depository that houses our visual arts collection (curated by Michaela Sidenberg) for a period of about 6 months as of 15 September 2014. During this time, the paintings in this collection will not be made available for any use – i.e., for taking out or depositing, lending, digitization, condition appraisal, study or research purposes, or for the provision of information that is not otherwise available in our database or in other records and documents. Access to the prints and drawings  in this collection will be limited, depending on the current situation. We will let you know in advance of the depository's reopening through our website and newsletter and on Facebook. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Archive closed

The archive of the Jewish Museum in Prague will be temporarily closed to the public from 1 October 2014 until early 2015 due to the construction of a fire suppression system in the archive’s depository. The re-opening date is to be specified depending on the progress of construction work. The depository will have to be cleared for the duration of the works, preventing us from handling any research enquiries. We are sorry for any inconvenience.

Prague Museum Night 2014

Prague Museum Night 2014
We are looking forward to your visit during the Prague Museum Night on 14 June. The Klausen and the Spanish Synagogue will be open this year. As the Museum Night takes place on Saturday (the Jewish Sabbath), our exhibitions will not open until after the Sabbath ends at 10.30 p.m. They will be on view until 1 a.m. We hope that you understand the reasons for the shorter opening hours.
Entrance and program for children are free of charge. More information

The Story Continues: Acquisitions in the Collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague, 1994–2014

Robert Guttmann Gallery, 24 April – 3 August 2014 More information

The Shoah History Department Archive will be closed in August.

. In urgent cases you can book the visit after prior agreement via email holocaust@jewishmuseum.cz. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Important – a closure notice of part of the museum’s depositories

The Jewish Museum in Prague closes part of its depositories due to the reconstruction works for approximately 15 or 18 months from 29th March 2014. During this period of time, the objects that are kept there will not be available for any manipulation, i.e. to put and withdraw them to/from depository, to perform the digitization of collections, to review the condition of collection items, to conduct research beyond the information accessible from the museum's internal database or other documentation or evidence record-keeping sources of JMP, to comply with loans. Closing the depositary applies to all the collection items from the collection of metals and 3D objects (curator Jaroslav Kuntoš ) and partly of the collection items from the collection of textiles, especially the oldest items and small pieces and household textiles (curated by Dana Veselská, PhD.). We shall inform the public in advance about the reopening of the depository via our website, Facebook and Newsletter. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.