Manchester Jewish Museum
Visit Us
We are open.
Following a £6 million 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 are open seven days a week and tickets for general admission are on sale now for timed entries. General admission tickets are available to book up to 4 weeks in advance. Our museum can be busy on weekdays when we often have schools visiting. If you would like a more peaceful visit we would recommend visiting at weekends or after 2.30pm.
The museum will be closed from the 25 – 28 December and on 1 & 2 January 2021.
We are continuing with COVID precautions to keep our visitors, staff and volunteers safe. Click here for information about what COVID-19 safety measures you can expect when you visit.
We look forward to welcoming you to our new museum.
Coming Soon
We look forward to welcoming you to our new museum. We connect Jewish stories to the world and to our society. Explore our brand-new gallery and fully restored Grade II* Listed synagogue before stopping in our vegetarian café to sample authentic Jewish recipes.
Eclectic artist collective Sam Ranger, Tamara Micner and Emily Rose, accompanied by a troupe of colourful performers, give an adult twist to the Yiddish Pantomime tradition with their riotous, raucous and irreverent take on a pantomime classic.
Join us for some swirly, twirly, colourful marbling art! Inspired by the use of oil in Chanukah, we will be using oil-based marbling paints to design our very own tote bags, prints and cards.
Our new building
On Friday 2 July 2021 we reopened our new museum with a building twice the size as before. Our synagogue has also 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 includes a new gallery, learning studio & kitchen, collection store, shop and vegetarian Kosher-style café.
A new gallery, designed by All Things Studio, showcases our collection based around the universal themes of journeys, communities and identities.
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OURS AND YOURS
Our mission
We are a place to experience 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.
Let Culture Set You Free
We are proud to be part of Manchester’s world-renowned culture scene. A city of artists, museums, galleries, theatres, music venues and spaces for making. Welcome back Manchester, we are open once more.
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 new museum includes a brand-new learning studio and educational gallery as well as complete restoration of our synagogue, providing the perfect hands-on environment for schools wishing to learn more about Jewish culture.
We are offering two half day workshops from September: Synagogue & Sabbath and Festivals & Feasts. These can also be booked together as one full day, giving your students the full Manchester Jewish Museum experience.