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    Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait

    The Jewish Museum Vienna portrays the musician, who died at a young age in 2011, as hardly anyone knows her. Deeply rooted in the Jewish history of her family that immigrated to England from Belarus in the 1890s.More

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    Doomsday – Jewish Life and Death in World War I

    World War I with the social changes that it produced is regarded as a turning point of global historical significance. The demise of the old order also had grave consequences for the Jews of Austria-Hungary. They were the most loyal subjects of Emperor Franz Joseph I, who guaranteed them legal security and detested anti-Semitism.More

  • “Our City! Jewish Vienna - Then to Now”

    “Our City! Jewish Vienna - Then to Now”

    After two years of intensive preparations, the Jewish Museum Vienna is now proud to present its new permanent exhibition, a retrospective of Jewish presence and achievement in Vienna. Twenty-five years after its (re-) establishment the museum once again sets an innovative standard.More

  • JMW Schaudepot

    Vienna and the World: Our Visible Storage

    In the Visible Storage you can see treasures from all our major collections: the Jewish Community collection, the Berger, Schlaff, and Stern private collections, as well as items acquired by the museum since its reopening in the early 1990s.More

  • Fabrics and Stories – Textiles from the Jewish Museum Collections

    Before the reform movement women had no active function in the religious service, but they have always played an important role in traditional communities as donors of textiles for the synagogue.More

Collections

The Vienna Jewish Community Collection

The collection of the first Jewish museum in the world was started 120 years ago, on February 24, 1893. The first object is missing – as is half of the original collection.More

The Berger Collection

Sammlung Berger, Hochzeitsring, 1. Hälfte 19. Jh., Inv. Nr. 8010

Max Berger, born in 1924 in Poland, was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust, coming to Vienna in the early 1950s. In memory of his family and in search of the few remaining traces of a destroyed world, he began to tirelessly collect Judaica objects: by the time of his death in 1988, he had collected around 10,000 objects, which offer unique insight and an impressive testimony of Jewish life in Vienna and the Austro-Hungarian space.More

The JMW Collection

Despite its relatively short recent history, the Jewish Museum Vienna can boast extremely rich and diversified collections showcasing the spectrum of Austrian Jewish life and customs.More

The Schlaff Collection

In 1993, Martin Schlaff donated to the Jewish Museum Vienna his collection of around 5,000 objects to the Jewish Museum Vienna, which include figurines, everyday objects, postcards, documents and books reflecting anti-Semitic attitudes. The collector wanted to make the objects and documents available for research but also wished quite deliberately to remove them from the market and from buyers with anti-Semitic sentiments.More

Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Foundation

Since 1992 the Jewish Museum Vienna has been responsible for the artistic estate of Heinrich Sussmann (1904–86) as a permanent loan. The collection includes 1,157 drawings, graphics, watercolors, posters, and paintings documenting his artistic output after 1945. Heinrich Sussmann was born in Tarnopol and came with his family as a refugee to Vienna after World War I. He studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts in the class given by Oskar Strnad and worked as a set designer and caricaturist.More

The Stern Collection

In 1994, the Jewish Museum Vienna acquired the extensive collection of Eli Stern, which comprises, among others, books, ritual objects, textiles and documents, as well as a particularly captivating assortment of some 2,300 postcards dating from 1900 to 1950.More

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