
The shtetl – a lost world
On the 22nd of June, the Oslo Jewish Museum opened a new exhibition in the museum’s backyard. Who were the Jews…
The Museum opened to the public in 2008, and has since grown to have tree permanent exhibitions, temporary exhibitions, a research department, several education programmes, an extensive collection of artifacts, numerous cultural events, and about 6 000 visitors per year.
The exhibition “The Jewish Year” displays the main Jewish holidays in an interactive way, incorporating games, videos, music, and literature.
“Remember us unto life – Jews in Norway 1940-1945” is the Museum’s Holocaust exhibition. Through individuals’ stories, belongings and photographs, the exhibition shows the lives and fates of some of those murdered, some who escaped, and some who helped supply cover and flight.
The outdoor exhibition “Heia jødene!” in the backyard of the museum is devoted to showing Jewish life and presence at its most ordinary and fundamentally “Norwegian” – in outdoors recreation and in sports. The exhibition tells the story of Norwegian Jews that have excelled in different sports.
The Museum’s collections consist of documentation and artifacts which were either donated to the museum or collected by its staff. As of late 2022 close to 3000 artifacts, consisting of about 1000 units or museum numbers, are documented, registered, and placed in the stacks. All are digitized. The Oslo Jewish Museum is the holder of the correspondence of The Mosaic Congregation and the private archives of several Jewish organizations and individuals. The material is partly organized and cataloged.
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