The Jewish Museum - Reopens at last!
19th February 2010
The Jewish Museum in London reopens on 17 March, after a £10m expansion project. Based in Camden Town, the original Victorian building has been linked with its neighbour, a former piano factory. Designed by Long & Kentish architects, this triples the museum’s space. Its four main galleries are devoted to an introduction, history of British Jews, Jewish faith and the holocaust. Among the new displays are a Medieval mikveh (a Jewish ritual bath) dating from the 13th century, on view for the first time since it was excavated in 2001 and a gallery dedicated to the testimony of British-born Holocaust survivor Leon Greenman OBE.
The inaugural temporary exhibition, “Illumination—Hebrew Treasures from the Vatican and Major British Collections” opens on 25 June and runs until October 2010.
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