Musée d'Art Juif

The Musée d'Art Juif is a private museum of Jewish art located at 42, rue des Saules, Paris, France. It is open daily except Friday, Saturday, and Jewish holidays. The nearest métro station is Lamarck – Caulaincourt.

The museum was established in 1948 in homage to the Jewish culture destroyed by the Holocaust. Its first collections were religious objects donated in 1951 by the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization, and subsequently a document collection focusing on European synagogue architecture. Marie Chabchay, the museum's first curator, embarked on building up a collection of graphic works by Russian, German, and Parisian artists. In 1998 portions of its collection were moved to the new Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme.

The museum contains twelve rooms with collections including a reconstructed synagogue and synagogue models, ethnological objects, paintings, sculptures, and tomb stones from Prague.

See also

• List of museums in Paris

References

• Paris.org entry
• CityZeum entry
• Places in France entry
• Paris.18.evous entry (French)
• Stephen Fallon, Paris, Lonely Planet, 2004, page 89. ISBN 1740597605.
• Address by President of Republic Mr. Jacques Chirac on the Occasion of the Inauguration of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, November 30, 1998 [1]

Coordinates: 48°53′25″N 2°20′26″E / 48.89028°N 2.34056°E / 48.89028; 2.34056