35th International Museum Day
The 35th International Museum Day is taking place in Austria, Germany and Switzerland on Sunday, May 20, 2012. This year museums are invited to celebrate this day with activities under the heading “Museums in a changing world: new challenges – new inspiration.”
The Jewish Museum Vienna invites visitors to take part in interactive guided tours entitled The objects, the world, the museum: a journey through the Jewish Museum Vienna. Bring your own expectations, thoughts, and opinions with you, because we would like to know how what you think about the things you see.
Jewish Museum Vienna, Dorotheergasse 11, 1010 Vienna
10:30am and 03:00pm
Museum Judenplatz, Judenplatz 8, 1010 Vienna
12:00am and 04:30pm
The Jewish Museum Vienna looks forward to welcoming you.
Vienna . 1010 . Dorotheergasse 11 . Jewish Museum
The display window series
Take a look at our display window as you pass by! At the time of Jewish holidays, you will see an informative installation with objects and situations relating to the festival concerned. If you want to find out more, just come inside!
The current display window contains information and objects about Shavuot.
From May 26 to 28, 2012, Jews all over the world celebrate Shavuot (Hebrew for “weeks”). It is one of three Pilgrim Festivals, together with Pesach and Sukkot, for which the Jewish people at the time of the Temple used to come to Jerusalem with animal and cereal offerings. It marks the end of the Counting of the Omer, which starts on the second day of Pesach and lasts seven weeks. At the start of the count Jews brought an omer (a Biblical measure) of cereal from the first barley harvest to the Temple. At the end they brought an offering from the wheat harvest. The festival is named after the seven weeks of the Counting of the Omer. Shavuot also commemorates the handing over of the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai. Milk, dairy products, and honey are traditionally eaten at Shavuot, in recognition of the words in the Torah: “I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey.” Exodus (Shemot) 3, 1-12
New catalog arrived - “Jewish Geniuses—Warhol’s Jews”
A catalog has published to accompany the exhibition “Jewish Geniuses—Warhol’s Jews” at Museum Judenplatz. An interview conducted Danielle Spera with Ronald Feldman, who initiated the print series Ten Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century, offers insights into the origins of the series, the friendship between Feldman and Warhol, and his method of working. 
The catalog contains short biographies of the ten “Jewish geniuses,” as Warhol described them, as well as the photos on which the portraits were based. Sebastian Egenhofer’s essay looks at the artistic context and background to the portraits. There is also an essay by André Heller, who was portrayed by Warhol in 1981 and who accompanied him on a walk through Vienna. Gabriela Brandenstein’s photographs document this unusual tour of the city.
With contributions by Danielle Spera, Sebastian Egenhofer, Astrid Peterle, and André Heller. ISBN 978-3-901398-63-6, 69 pages, color illustrations, German/English, Vienna 2012, €18.00.
Available from the Jewish Museum Vienna or via e mail info@jmw.at.
MUSEUM – New publication available now
Now you can take the Jewish Museum Vienna home in your bag: The new publication “Museum” accompanies visitors on a tour through the Jewish Museum Vienna, provides insights into the collections and their stories, leads from floor to floor, from the visible to the invisible and even out of the museum. 
The objects and their stories can be learned, admired and interpreted on site, but “Museum” also lets you recall your visit at the museum, works as souvenir and gift. The bilingual book presents the museum as a dynamic institution that makes the Jewish past and present in Vienna and Austria comprehensible.
Editor: Jewish Museum Vienna. Editorial team: Hannah Landsmann, Maren Waffenschmid. Texts: Domagoj Akrap, Sabine Frank-Moser, Werner Hanak-Lettner, Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz, Hannah Landsmann, Katharina Lischka, Christa Prokisch, Danielle Spera, Maren Waffenschmid, Andrea Winklbauer.
131 pages, German/English, ISBN 978-3-901398-62-9, € 13,-.
Available at the Jewish Museum Vienna or order via E-Mail info@jmw.at.
Jewish Filmclub at the Jewish Museum Vienna
Starting January 2012, the Jewish Museum Vienna will cooperate with the Jewish Filmclub. Once a month, the auditorium at the second floor of the museum turns into a cinema, our café becomes a place of debate and the museum bookshop Singer provides background information. Film, literature and coffee, Jewish tradition and culture, Jewish Vienna and Jewish movies combine and invite you to watch, enjoy and talk about movies at the Jewish Museum Vienna.
The Jewish Filmclub shows extraordinary motion pictures dealing with Jewish life all over the world. The Jewish Museum Vienna and the Jewish Filmclub perceive themselves as places of encounter and discussion with the audience.
Information about tickets and dates click here.
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Looking for old objects – do you have something for us? 
On the trail of Viennese Jewish Post-War History
The Jewish Museum Vienna is planning a permanent exhibition on the history of the Jews in Vienna from 1945 to the present, but also about Jewish migration history to and through Vienna. We would like to ask for support in the collection of film and photographic materials that document this period.
We look forward to your call or e-mail!
For further information, please contact:
Naomi Kalwil
Tel.: +43-1-535 04 31-120
naomi.kalwil@jmw.at
