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
Tuesday, March 28th - Sunday, October 29th | Museum Judenplatz, Judenplatz 8, A-1010 Vienna
According to the Judeo-Christian tradition, Adam and Eve introduced guilt into the world through the Fall. Furthermore, Cain’s murder of his brother Abel is regarded today as an allegory for the wrongs that people inflict on others. While the admission of guilt is a central idea in monotheistic religions, in society it is criminal law […] | more
Wednesday, June 21st - Sunday, January 14th | Museum Dorotheergasse, Dorotheergasse 11, A-1010 Wien
The photographer Maria Austria, actually Marie Östreicher, was born in Karlovy Vary in 1915 and came to Vienna in the mid-1930s to study at the Higher Federal Institution for Graphic Education and Research. After working briefly as a press photographer, she emigrated to Amsterdam in 1937, where she founded the Studio Model en Foto Austria […] | more
Wednesday, July 12th - Sunday, January 14th | Museum Dorotheergasse, Dorotheergasse 11, A-1010 Wien
Starting in England, football developed into a sport for the masses in Europe in the early twentieth century and enthralls hundreds of millions of people worldwide today. Historical victories and defeats remain part of national identities and shape a club’s self-perception. The Zionist-oriented SC Hakoah inscribed a “Jewish football” success story in the history of […] | more
Monday, October 2nd - Sunday, June 30th | Juridicum, Schottenbastei 10-16, 1010 Wien
In 2020 the Austrian constitution celebrated its 100th anniversary. Praised by the Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen for its ‘elegance and beauty,’ its contents are not well enough known, and the devotion to the constitution that in countries such as the USA is rare in Austria. The important role played by the legal expert […] | more
Tuesday, November 7th - Sunday, May 26th | Judenplatz,
At a time when war is being waged again even in Europe, a new exhibition at the Jewish Museum Vienna will focus on peace. Starting with various concepts and definitions of peace, the exhibition will trace the relationship between peace and Judaism, politics, war, feminism, and justice. It will focus on Jewish perspectives and recall […] | more
Wednesday, February 14th - Sunday, September 1st | Museum Dorotheergasse, Dorotheergasse 11, A-1010 Wien
In 2019 James “Sandy” Rikoon gifted part of his collection of prints done by the Jewish Austrian artist Emil Singer (1881–1942) to the Jewish Museum Vienna with the intent of restoring a lost piece of Viennese Jewish history. Researching this collection has revealed a unique network of historians, hobby researchers, and collectors all working in […] | more
