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Exhibition
On the Jewish Wig: Project Space at the Jewish Museum Vienna
A project space exploring the cultural and religious significance of the Jewish wig (sheitel) through film and personal perspectives….
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Training
A Crisis Communication Training Series for AEJM Members
Jewish museums and organisations are facing increasingly complex communication challenges in today’s public and digital environments. These include questions such as how to respond to hate speech and antisemitic comments online, when to speak out in a polarised…
Member Update
Job offer: Interim Head of Collections at the Jewish Museum London
The Jewish Museum London seeks an Interim Head of Collections….
Member Update
The Renovation of the Jewish Museum of Greece
Located in the heart of Athens, the Jewish Museum of Greece is entering a new chapter in its history through an ambitious renovation project…
Annelise Kretschmer, picture of Christiane Kretschmer, 1965: ©Nachlass Annelise Kretschmer, LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster
Exhibition
The Cosmos of Life: The photographer Annelise Kretschmer. Travelling exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Westphalia
Annelise Kretschmer (Dortmund) is one of the most significant German female photographers of the 20th century. With this traveling exhibition the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe pays tribute to her work….
Lost Shtetl Museum, Šeduva, Lithuania; Copyright: Martin Sommerschield, Kuvatoimisto Kuvio
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Lost Shtetl Museum Included in the World’s Most Beautiful Museums List 2026
The Lost Shtetl Museum in Šeduva, Lithuania, has been selected for the Prix Versailles World’s Most Beautiful Museums List 2026, recognising its architecture, narrative power, and memorial mission….
Joseph Sassoon Semah
GiLGUL ShaTIaCh Carpet (Reincarnation) Rolling, 1983
Foto: Eva Jünger / JMM
Exhibition
Yalla. Arab-Jewish Encounters. An exhibition of the Jewish Museum Hohenems in cooperation with the Jewish Museum Munich
The history of Jews in North Africa and Western Asia is marked by close cultural proximity to their Arab environment—by shared languages, musical and intellectual traditions, as well as by ruptures, exclusion, and violence. Over the course of…
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The Future of Jewish Museums: Talk with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Mirjam Wenzel
In honor of its 25th anniversary, the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe has launched a video series titled “Challenging Conversations.” Each video focuses on a topic related to an area of work supported by the foundation. The newest and…
Member Project
Online Event: Jewish Italy Around the World – Italian objects at Amsterdam’s Jewish Cultural Quarter, May 14, 6:30 CET
Zoom talk on Jewish objects in the collection of the ewish Cultural Quarter in Amsterdam, May 14, 6:30 CET…
Member Update
Memorial unveiled for wartime staff of the Jewish Museum in Prague
A memorial unveiled in Prague honours more than 120 wartime staff who preserved Jewish heritage under Nazi rule, many of whom later perished in extermination camps….
News
AEJM Membership Survey 2025: Working in a Jewish Museum Since October 7, 2023
Last year we conducted a survey among our members on the impact of the massacre that took place in Israel on 7 October 2023 and the following war. In cooperation with CAJM, the Council of American Jewish Museums…
Exhibition
Jewish Värmland: Exhibition at the Jewish Museum Stockholm
Jewish Värmland explores Jewish life in Karlstad and Värmland from the 19th century to today through photographs, archives, personal stories, and newly collected testimonies….