TRAILBLAZING OUR NEW MUSEUM
Reimagine
Reset
Reconnect
Manchester Jewish Museum
UPCOMING
Reimagine – Reset – Reconnect
Manchester Jewish Museum is re-emerging and transforming. Join us for a taste of what’s to come in our trailblazer programme of digital events, sneak peeks and unique experiences leading up to our reopening this summer.
Artists in the Archives
Over summer 2020, we paired up members of our Artists Network and asked them about how they use archives in their own work. The result is a joyous, touching and intimate collection of short filmed conversations made from home.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Explore our plans for upcoming exhibitions when the Museum repoens in 2021
Visit Us
The museum is currently closed.
We are currently closed for a major building project as part of our multi-million pound redevelopment. Due to covid-19 restrictions, our pop-up museum in Manchester Central Library is now closed.
Check out our What’s On page for online events and activity.
We look forward to welcoming you to our new museum when we reopen in 2021.
Coming Soon
Museum Foodies Group
Would you like to become a Museum Foodie? Our Foodies Group meet regularly to talk, cook and eat food inspired by the stories of Jewish Manchester.
Museum Song-Writing Group
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.
Museum Song-Writing Group
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.
Our new building
We will re-open in 2021 with a new building, twice the size as before. Our synagogue will also have been repaired, refurbished and its original decorative features reinstated.
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.