Manchester Jewish Museum
Visit Us
Manchester Jewish Museum will be reopening at 10am on Friday 2 July.
Following a multi-million pound redevelopment our new museum includes a new gallery, café, shop and learning studio & kitchen as well as complete restoration of our stunning 1874 synagogue.
We will be open seven days a week and tickets for general admission will go on sale in May.
We look forward to welcoming you to our new museum.
Coming Soon
Our Song-writing Group meet fortnightly to work with amazing composers, singers and musicians to create new music inspired by the stories in our collection. Perfect for anyone who like to sing, write lyrics, play an instrument or just get creative.
Explore our plans for upcoming exhibitions when the Museum repoens in 2021
Our primary learning workshops will be launching in 2021. With two brand new sessions, Manchester Jewish Museum is the perfect opportunity to explore Judaism with your class.
Our new building
We will re-open on Friday 2 July 2021 with a new building, twice the size as before. Our synagogue will also have been repaired, refurbished and its original decorative features reinstated.
Thank you to the National Heritage Lottery Fund and all our capital supporters who helped us achieve our ambitions.
Designed by award-winning architects, Citizens Design Bureau, our extension will include a new gallery, learning studio & kitchen, collection store, shop and cafe.
A new gallery, designed by All Things, will showcase our collection based around the themes of journeys, communities and identities.
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OURS AND YOURS
Our mission
We are a place to experience and explore how we are different, together.
Here, you can bake, sing, laugh, dance, cook, cry, get messy and make friends.
Using our collection and synagogue we connect Jewish stories, culture and traditions to the wider world. In doing so, we bring people together, showing we have more in common than separates us.
We make connections to make things better.
OUR GROUPS
We have a growing community of artists, song-writers, textile enthusiasts, local residents and cultural and community partners.
Our community groups are a great opportunity to meet other people to share stories and cultural traditions – and we are always looking for new members.
SCHOOLS & LEARNING
Our engaging and informative learning sessions offer amazing opportunities for booked groups of all ages to learn about faith, culture and history.
Whether it’s baking bread in our learning kitchen or playing detective with real museum objects, your learners should expect the unexpected when visiting this historic synagogue with a difference.