Sunday, November 1st - Saturday, December 31st | Museum Dorotheergasse, Dorotheergasse 11, A-1010 Wien
“Our City!” starts with the years from 1945 to the present on the ground floor. It describes the development, in spite of the unhelpfulness of Austrian post-war politicians, of an almost completely destroyed Jewish community to its present-day modest but highly dynamic presence. It is a story of immigration: first from Eastern and Central Europe, […] | more
Wednesday, October 22nd - Sunday, April 26th | Museum Dorotheergasse, Dorotheergasse 11, A-1010 Wien
What skin colors do Jews have – and which are ascribed to them? How do they position themselves? The exhibition Black Jews, White Jews? explores these questions and shows historical and contemporary examples of external and self-perception. It examines the topic of Jewish identity in the charged relationship between self-definition, antisemitism, and racism. For centuries, […] | more
Wednesday, January 28th - Thursday, September 17th | Museum Judenplatz, Judenplatz 8, A-1010 Vienna
The Hebrew words lishkoach, meaning to forget, and koach, referring both to power and strength, rhyme and reveal the dual nature of forgetting. The exhibition Everything Forgotten looks at the power but also the powerlessness of forgetting from a cultural history perspective and asks whether it merely denotes loss, or whether it can also be […] | more
Wednesday, February 25th - Monday, June 8th | Museum Dorotheergasse, Dorotheergasse 11, A-1010 Wien
The Jewish Museum Vienna is presenting in its Project Space a filmic documentation of a post‑1945 hideout built by Holocaust survivor Emmerich Grünwald. Supplemented by interviews, the museum embarks on a search for traces of a generation that could not forget the traumas of persecution, deportation, and concentration camps. The radio technician Emmerich Grünwald (1896–1958) […] | more
Thursday, March 19th | Museum Dorotheergasse, Dorotheergasse 11, A-1010 Wien
Founded in 2023, the a cappella group ApiChorus consists of current students at Harvard University and represents a broad spectrum of Jewish backgrounds. The choir’s repertoire includes Hebrew and English classics as well as its own arrangements. In March 2025, the choir embarked on its first international tour to Israel. Performances in London, Berlin, Paris, […] | more
Thursday, March 26th | Museum Dorotheergasse, Dorotheergasse 11, A-1010 Wien
From 2020, through changes to the Austrian Citizenship Act, the descendants of Austrian victims of National Socialism, many of them Jewish, have been able to reclaim Austrian citizenship. In this captivating memoir, the first of its kind to be published, Anne Hand embarks on a deeply personal journey to pursue Austrian citizenship and uncover her family’s […] | more
Wednesday, May 20th - Sunday, November 8th | Museum Dorotheergasse, Dorotheergasse 11, A-1010 Wien
The Israeli artist Eran Shakine (*1962) gives every one of his paintings the same title: “A Muslim, a Christian and a Jew…” – almost as if he were about to tell a joke. In his large-scale works, he humorously explores the question of similarities and differences among the three monotheistic world religions. The headline of […] | more
Tuesday, September 29th - Sunday, April 4th | Museum Judenplatz, Judenplatz 8, A-1010 Vienna
After the Anschluss on March 12, 1938, Vienna became a model city for the systematic expulsion of Jews. In a very short time, the third-largest Jewish community in Europe was wiped out through emigration, deportation, and murder. For those who managed to flee abroad, this meant the loss of their bourgeois existence, their possessions, and […] | more
Wednesday, November 25th - Sunday, May 9th | Museum Dorotheergasse, Dorotheergasse 11, A-1010 Wien
The exhibition traces the emergence of the Oriental studies in the nineteenth century and arrives at a surprising insight: the development of Islamic studies, Arabic studies, and Orientalism was closely intertwined with the Science of Judaism, as well as with movements of emancipation and reform. Many of its key protagonists were Viennese Jews—making “Die Morgenländer” […] | more
