Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme , musem in paris , france

Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme , musem in paris , france ,,,

The Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme is a French museum of Jewish art and history located in the Hôtel de Saint-Aignan at 71, rue du Temple in the Marais district in Paris. The museum is open daily except Saturday (Shabbat). An admission fee is charged. The nearest métro station is Rambuteau.

it was in 1948 that the Musée d'Art et Histoire du Judaïsme (Museum of the Art and History of Judaism) was founded with as its primary aim that of preserving the memory of the victims of the Holocaust.

This museum is situated in the IIIrd arrondissement of Paris, in the Hôtel de Saint-Aignan.

The Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme offers an artistic, cultural and ethnographic collection including religious items, stamps and models of synagogues.

History Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme , musem in paris , france ,,,,

The museum dates from 1986 when the then-Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac, made the Hôtel de Saint-Aignan (1650) available for a museum of Jewish civilization. Its interior was converted starting in 1993, with the initial collection formed in 1998 by combining the Strauss-Rothschild gift built up by Isaac Strauss and given by Baroness Nathaniel de Rothschild in 1890 to the Musée de Cluny, with the holdings assembled since 1948 by the Musée d'Art Juif. This collection has been enhanced by acquisitions and donations of art, and historical and ethnological objects.

The museum reflects the history of Jewish communities in France, Europe, and North Africa, from the Middle Ages to the present. It contains archives of the Dreyfus affair, 20th-century art (Chagall, Modigliani, Soutine, Michel Kikoine), as well as objets d'art, textiles and manuscripts, and a 182-seat auditorium. The Carnavalet Museum has added to its collection of medieval tombstones.