Jewish Museum Frankfurt
The Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main is the oldest independent Jewish Museum in Germany. It was opened by Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl on 9 November 1988, the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht.[1]
The Jewish Museum collects, preserves and communicates the nine-hundred-year-old Jewish history and culture of the City of Frankfurt from a European perspective. It has a permanent exhibition at two venues: the Museum Judengasse at Battonstraße 47 focuses on the theme of the history and culture of Jews in Frankfurt during the early modern period; the Jewish Museum in the Rothschildpalais at Untermainkai 14/15 presents Jewish history and culture since 1800. The museum was refurbished and expanded between 2015 and 2020.
The focus of the collection is on the areas ceremonial culture, fine arts and family history. The museum has extensive holdings related to the Rothschild family and the Anne Frank family which will be presented in the new permanent exhibition. The Ludwig Meidner Archive is responsible for the estates of the artists Ludwig Meidner, Jacob Steinhardt, Henry Gowa and others.[2] In addition, the museum has an extensive library as well as a document and photograph collection related to German-Jewish history and culture.
History
A museum of Jewish antiquities existed in Frankfurt even before the foundation of today's museum. It was opened in 1922 and was one of the first of its kind in Germany, showing mainly Jewish cult items. In 1938 the museum was destroyed by the National Socialists; only a few of the objects have been preserved in Frankfurt.
After the
The museum is part of the Museumsufer.
Museum Judengasse
In 1987 the foundations of 19 houses on what used to be called the
To commemorate the 650th anniversary of the Golden Bull of 1356, four museums in Frankfurt organised an exhibition called Die Kaisermacher ("The Emperor-Makers") from 2006 to 2007. The Museum Judengasse contributed archaeological findings, documenting in particular the role played by the Jews of Frankfurt as the Emperor's servi camerae regis.[3]
Museumsufer
Jewish Museum is part of the Museumsufer.
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See also
Footnotes
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- ^ "Art Collection of the Jewish Museum". Archived from the original on 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2016-12-19.
- ^ Stadtgeschichte: Auf den Spuren der Kaisermacher Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 28 September 2006. (in German)
Further reading
- Fritz Backhaus / Raphael Gross / Sabine Kößling / Mirjam Wenzel (Ed.): The Judengasse in Frankfurt. Catalog of the permanent exhibition of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt. History, Politics, Culture. C.H. Beck Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69097-6.
- Hoppe, Jens (2001). Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur in Museen: zur nichtjüdischen Museologie des Jüdischen in Deutschland. Volume 393 of Internationale Hochschulschriften (in German). Waxmann.
External links
- Home page in English, including
- History of the museum (in German)
- History of the building
- "Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt". Museumsufer Frankfurt. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- Website Museum Judengasse in English