Jüdisches Museum Wien

The Jewish Museum Vienna is a place of exploration of Jewish history, religion and culture, with commemoration and remembrance, with Vienna and the world, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The Jewish Museum Vienna preserves and interprets one of the largest European Judaica collections - the legacy of the third largest Jewish community in Europe before the Shoah. By collecting, exhibiting and mediating, it documents the history and present of the city of Vienna, shaped by different forms of migration, and takes socio-political positions. The Jewish Museum Vienna surprises with new perspectives on Judaism. It invites people of all cultures and generations to dialogue, encourages them to ask questions and participate in the creative process.

The Jewish Museum Vienna is a place of encounter with Jewish history, religion and culture, with memory and remembrance, with Vienna and the Middle Ages to now. It preserves and interprets one of the largest European collections of Judaica - the legacy of the third-largest Jewish community in Europe before the Holocaust. By collecting, exhibiting and communicating this heritage, it bears testimony to the past and the present of the city of Vienna. The Jewish Museum Vienna surprises with new perspectives on Judaism, invites people of all cultures and generations for dialogue, and encourages them to ask questions and to participate in the creative process.