Jewish Museum (Camden)

Jewish Museum (Camden)

The Jewish Museum is a museum of Jewish life and art, in the London Borough of Camden, on the northern fringes of central London, England. It was founded in 1932, in the Jewish communal headquarters in Bloomsbury, and in 1995 moved to its current site in Camden Town. Until recently it had a sister museum in Finchley, operated the same charitable trust and sited within the Sternberg Centre, but this branch closed in 2007 and at the same time the Camden branch closed for major building and extension work, which is still ongoing. From 2009 the collections of both the Finchley and Camden branches will be displayed at the redeveloped Camden site.

It holds a major international-level collection of Jewish ceremonial art. It also has exhibitions recounting the history of Jewish life in England, supported by a diverse collection of objects. There are also collections of paintings, prints and drawings, and an archive of photographs, which consists mainly of black and white photographs from the 1900s to the 1940s.

ee also

* Jewish Museum (Finchley)
* History of the Jews in England

External links

* [http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/ Jewish Museum official website]


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