Jewish Museum in Prague
Contact details
U staré školy 141/1Josefov
110 00 Prague
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 222 749 211
Email: office@jewishmuseum.cz
https://www.jewishmuseum.cz
Contact person
Dr Iveta Cermanová
Tel: +420 222 749 277
Email: iveta.cermanova@jewishmuseum.cz
Activites
A substantial part of the Jewish Museum's work involves developing educational and cultural activities in Prague and, since 2006, also in Brno. To this end, we collaborate with leading universities and educational institutions – including the Terezín Memorial, the Institute for Contemporary History at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Charles University in Prague, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Yad Vashem Memorial – as well as with independent historians, experts in Jewish studies, literary scholars, political scientists and teachers.Our educational programmes are intended for a wide variety of target groups.
The youngest children can become acquainted with Jewish culture, traditions and customs in a playful way at regular for them and their parents.
Elementary and secondary school pupils can take part in our and .
In 1996, on the basis of a decision of the Czech Ministry of Education, the Jewish Museum in Prague was included in the system of educational facilities for the further education of teaching staff. We also provide regular educational seminars for teachers
Our evening educational programmes for the general public provide insights into the diversity of Jewish education, commemorate important anniversaries and draw attention to current aspects of contemporary Jewish religion and cultural life.
Our touring exhibitions are available for schools and cultural institutions.
Both professionals and the general public have access to our specialized Jewish library and multimedia centre .
The Jewish Museum in Prague is also involved in several educational projects. These include the hugely successful “Neighbours who Disappeared” (in collaboration with the civic association Zapomenutí / The Forgotten Ones) and “Ours or Foreign? Jews in the Czech Twentieth Century ” (in co-operation with the Terezín Initiative Institute).
Main research activities
The Jewish Museum in Prague (JMP) collects, preserves, documents, and presents material and spiritual heritage relating to the history and the culture of the Jewish community in the territory of the Czech Lands, as it has existed from the 10th century to the present. Cataloguing, acquisition, conservation, restoration, proper storage of the collections as well as independent research activities are its main tasks. The museum organizes permanent and temporary exhibitions (presenting there the results of its research), exhibition catalogues are published regularly. Curators of the museum’s collections (Textiles, Metals, Visual arts, Manuscripts and genizah papers, Rare printed books) research various fields of Judaic studies as needed for their specialist activity. The independent research of the history of the Bohemian and Moravian Jewry is conducted by the JMP Department of Jewish History. Its members focus on political, administrative, economic, social, religious and cultural history of Jews in the Czech Lands within the broad context of development in Central and Eastern Europe between the 16th and the 19th centuries. The results of their research are published as monographs and academic articles, presented at conferences and used for creating special databases of the museum.
The Museum is also committed to providing support and academic guidance to undergraduate and postgraduate students writing their dissertations and theses, or who may be doing post graduate research in Jewish studies. Researchers, scholars and students may access the Museum’s sizeable library and archives which house sources, tools and archivalia relevant to the topic of the history of the Jewish religious communities of Bohemia and Moravia. The esteemed scholarly biannual journal Judaica Bohemiae published by the Jewish Museum in Prague may also be of interest to academics in the field.
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