Collections

Kosher for … Eating and tradition in Judaism

Eating is an important part of every culture – influenced by local conditions, intercultural developments, historical circumstances, religious and secular traditions, and customs.More

08 Oct 2014 to 08 Mar 2015,

Museum Dorotheergasse

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“Our City! Jewish Vienna - Then to Now”

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

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Museum Dorotheergasse

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200 and 20 – the library of the Jewish Museum

Two hundred years ago, as a sign of his sincere gratitude and great regard for the entire Israelite nation, the printer Anton Schmid gave it 133 volumes of Hebrew books printed by him. This donation in 1814 marked the start of one of the oldest Jewish community libraries.More

26 Nov 2014 to 07 Apr 2015,

Museum Dorotheergasse

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Tales of 2 Cities

Six artists from Russia and Austria investigate objects from the twentieth century from two collections in Moscow and Vienna. Through artistic research and dialogue with the curators of the collections, they identify objects as a launching pad for new projects and artworks.More

21 Jan to 19 Apr ,

Museum Judenplatz

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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