Tag: Museum

For about a year, officials at the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) in downtown St. Petersburg kept a closely guarded secret that the museum was seeking to become the permanent home of a treasure trove...

The Florida Holocaust Museum and the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity announce that the museum has been chosen as the permanent home of Elie Wiesel’s entire collection, including his Nobel Prize, the entire contents of his personal office...

The exhibition "Being and Belonging," on view through Jan. 7 at the Royal Ontario Museum, features artworks by contemporary women artists "from the Islamic world and beyond," per the museum website, which hails the...

An exhibition at the Biblical Museum of Natural History in Beit Shemesh explores the world of shofars, showcasing one of the largest global collections of the quintessential Jewish instruments. The display includes straight, curved, spiral...

Italy participated in the 24th annual European Day of Jewish Culture at 101 sites across 16 regions, with Florence serving as the lead city. This year’s event, held on Sept. 9-10, was dedicated to...

There’s only one museum in Israel dedicated to a sole living artist—the Yaacov Agam Museum in Rishon Letzion. Agam is so prolific and his work so striking that it’s not surprising that he merits...

The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida, north of Orlando, will expand, relocate and be renamed as its mission shifts to preserving the testimonials and memories of survivors of the Shoah. The new...

Canada’s oldest Jewish community is commemorating its heritage with a newly-opened museum just outside Montreal’s historic Jewish Mile End neighborhood. Housed in a former Jewish garment factory, the small Museum of Jewish Montreal distinguishes itself...