Thu. 17.02.2022

Our Medieval City! The First Jewish Community in Vienna

Discover unexpected and particularly exciting new insights into the early history of Viennese Jewish women and men as well as the fruitful life, but also the tragic end of this medieval community. The history of the origins of the Holocaust Memorial and the intensive discussions leading up to its implementation will also find space. The exhibition will feature the latest research results and technologies.
 

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Exhibition view Our Medieval City 1
Exhibition panel with glowing text ‚Unser Mittelalter! Our Medieval City!‘ and various information boards on a dark blue wall
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Exhibition view Our Medieval City 2
Exhibition wall with texts and images, including 'Über wen erzählen die Quellen?' and 'Whose story do the historical sources tell?'
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Exhibition view Our Medieval City 3
Digital display showing a virtual view of a historic church next to ancient wall ruins in a museum gallery
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Museum exhibit with text panels and a screen showing an elderly man in a suit speaking with English subtitles.
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Museum panels with texts and images about Judenplatz in the 16th century in German
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Human skeletal remains displayed in a lit glass case, surrounded by multilingual museum texts about Jews and anti-Judaism at the Jewish Museum Vienna
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Exhibition panels in the Jewish Museum Vienna with texts about doctors, apothecaries, and midwives
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Exhibition view Our Medieval City 8
Orange information panels with text on white walls in a room of the Jewish Museum Vienna
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Exhibition view Our Medieval City 9
Exhibition room with information panels about medieval Vienna and illuminated text 'Unser Mittelalter! Our Medieval City!' on blue wall
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Wall drawing of two historical figures in cloaks on the left, six orange illuminated information panels in German and English on the right, two white benches on blue floor.
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Exhibition room with white arch, five vertically illuminated orange information panels on the back wall, two white stools, and wall illustration of two historic figures
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Staircase with concrete walls, glass partition holding an information panel, and Hebrew and German text projected on the right wall
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Museum staircase with projected image of an old bronze key and Hebrew and German text reading 'Mosche, Sohn des Jaakob' on the wall
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Exhibition room in the Jewish Museum Vienna with text panels and exhibits about the medieval city, white walls, blue background with text 'Unser Mittelalter! Our Medieval City!'
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View into the medieval exhibition room with blue wall displaying 'Unser Mittelalter! Our Medie' and reflective panels showing Hebrew letters
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White exhibition room with high vaulted ceilings, central glass display case, many wall-mounted texts and exhibits
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Excavations 1
Ruins of an ancient Roman villa with stone walls and an area of red tile fragments at the Jewish Museum Vienna
© NAFEZ RERHUF
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Excavations 2
Ancient paved floor with square bricks and low stone walls in an indoor archaeology exhibit
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tombstone
Rectangular stone with horizontal Hebrew inscriptions engraved, upper right corner slightly broken
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Judenplatz
Large cobblestone square with statue on a white pedestal in the center, surrounded by historic multi-story buildings with white facades.
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Game of dice
Four old dice with raised dots and three worn square game pieces on white surface
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Comb
Three ancient artifacts on white surface: broken ivory comb, brown clay animal-shaped figure, small black carved figure, two brown rectangular relief plaques with patterns
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Key
A rusty old key with a round handle lying on a white surface.
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Exhibition view Our Medieval City 17
An old black metal or iron key displayed on a white museum mount.
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Exhibition view Our Medieval City 18
Underground exhibition space with illuminated archaeological wall ruins, lit staircase, and digital information display showing a historical building reconstruction
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Exhibition view Our Medieval City 19
Long exhibition room with white walls and curved vault, information panels on the walls, and round white seating on the gray floor.
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Excavations 3
Archaeological remains of stone walls and foundations in a dimly lit exhibition room with focused lighting
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