Jewish Museums
Below is an illustrated index of the 16 Jewish Museums profiled on Sacred Destinations so far. For photo credits, please see corresponding articles.
This large Orthodox synagogue dates from 1904 and includes an excellent Jewish museum.
Opened in 1965, this large museum includes art exhibits, a Judaica Wing, an Archaeological Wing, and the wonderful Shrine of the Book containing the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The Jewish museum traces the history of Jewish communities in the area and includes a tour of Augsburg's main synagogue (1917), an Art Nouveau building with a gold dome.
This is the area of Venice in which all Jews were forced to live from the 16th to the 18th century, as described in The Merchant of Venice. It is home to several synagogues and a Jewish museum.
This museum displays a collection of photographs and artifacts portraying the life of the once-influential Jewish community in Thessaloniki, which dates from the expulsion of Jews from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492.
Part of the Dohany Synagogue complex, this museum is devoted to the long history of the Jews in Hungary and contains many interesting artworks and religious artifacts that survived the war.
Opened in 2001, Berlin's Jüdisches Museum is housed in a striking modern building containing bizarre angles and open voids to evoke the Holocaust. It is the largest Jewish museum in Europe.
The Jewish Museum London provides a comprehensive history of the Jews in London from Norman times, especially since the end of the 17th century.
Founded in 1960 between two 19th-century synagogues, this award-winning museum tells the story of Jewish life in America with special attention on Judaism in Maryland.
Shanghai experienced several waves of Jewish immigration and there was once a large Jewish community here. You can visit the main synagogue, now a museum, and take a tour of Jewish Shanghai.
This small structure from 1840 is the oldest undamaged synagogue left in Germany. It now houses an exhibition on Erfurt's Jewish community.
Incorporating the Eldridge Street Synagogue, an Orthodox synagogue dating from 1887, this Jewish museum tells the story of Jewish immigrants to New York's Lower East Side.
Opened in 1997, this uniquely designed building in Lower Manhattan commemorates the victims of the Holocaust. It includes a kosher café.
Built in 1859-66 and meticulously restored, the New Synagogue of Berlin is an exotic amalgam of styles with a Moorish feel. It is both an active synagogue and a museum.
Accommodating 2,500 worshippers, New York's Temple Emanu-El is the largest synagogue in the world. It also includes a small museum.
Before World War II, Worms had one of the oldest Jewish communities in Germany. Today it is home to a rebuilt Romanesque synagogue, an old mikveh, and a Jewish museum.
