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
Thursday, May 8th - Sunday, January 18th | Museum Judenplatz, Judenplatz 8, A-1010 Vienna
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Wednesday, October 1st - Friday, January 16th | Museum Dorotheergasse, Dorotheergasse 11, A-1010 Wien
Frequently broadcasted over radio stations as examples of “German music,” the Blue Danube Waltz and the Radetzky March remained popular melodies during the Nazi era. While it was already uncomfortable for the regime that many of the librettists of Strauss’s operettas were Jewish, the revelation of the Waltz King’s partial Jewish ancestry would have been […] | 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
Sunday, December 14th | Multiple locations, multiple addresses
We are delighted to offer tours in English featuring an overview of our exhibitions and collections at our two locations. Within a mere sixty minutes, you will experience a high dose of Viennese Jewish history and become acquainted with the most fascinating aspects of this vibrant heritage at the oldest Jewish museum in the world. Times […] | more
Wednesday, January 28th - Sunday, September 6th | Museum Judenplatz, Judenplatz 8, A-1010 Vienna
The Hebrew words lishkoach (to forget) and koach (power or strength) sound similar. Even though they are not etymologically related, their similarity reminds us of 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 forgetting is just […] | more
