Jewish Museum London Visit

In the com­ing months, Euro­peana will launch a few new vir­tual exhi­bi­tions. Among the first to be released are the exhi­bi­tions pro­duced in part­ner­ship with Judaica Euro­peana,  a project that high­lights con­tent doc­u­ment­ing the Jew­ish pres­ence and her­itage in the cities of Europe. Already there are over 6,000 texts and audio files on Euro­peana com­ing through Judaica Euro­peana, and soon there will be even more inter­est­ing things on Jew­ish heritage.

The first exhi­bi­tions come from the Jew­ish Museum Lon­don and the Jew­ish His­tor­i­cal Museum in Amsterdam.

Last week we vis­ited the Jew­ish Museum Lon­don (JML). The museum has a strong focus on Jew­ish her­itage in London’s East End, but it also reflects the social his­tory of Jew­ish peo­ple across Lon­don and other areas. The museum will con­tribute an exhi­bi­tion on Yid­dish The­atre in Lon­don which fea­tures sto­ries about the peo­ple, build­ings and plays that made Yid­dish the­atre in Lon­don so special.

Eliz­a­beth Selby, Project Offi­cer at the museum, gave a fan­tas­tic tour. The JML receives many vis­i­tors includ­ing school groups from all back­grounds who are encour­aged to learn about Jew­ish cul­ture. The museum also has a large net­work of vol­un­teer staff who are on standby to give fur­ther expla­na­tion about items on dis­play and answer ques­tions. It was great to see objects that will ulti­mately be avail­able through Euro­peana, and fea­tured in the online exhibitions.

Keep check­ing our blog, face­book and twit­ter for more news about our vir­tual exhibitions.