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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 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 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.
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.
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 Women's Textile group is a great place to make new friends and practice your textile craft. This week we will be finding out more about an incredibly exciting summer project so it's the perfect time to get involved.
Explore our plans for upcoming exhibitions when the Museum repoens in 2021
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.
Manchester Jewish Museum will reopen this July
Manchester Jewish Museum will be opening its doors on Friday 2 July after a multi-million pound development. The new museum includes a new gallery, café, shop and learning kitchen as well as complete restoration of its stunning 1874 synagogue.
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 on Friday 2 July 2021.
Restoring our Synagogue Windows
Restoring one of Manchester's oldest surviving synagogues is no mean feat. Learn about the "pane-staking" process of restoring our 1874 synagogue's stained glass windows with Recclesia stained glass repair specialists.
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.
The Great Jewish Museum Bake Off – Strudel & Clara Weingard’s Mother’s Sweetshop
For our fourth and final week of our Great Jewish Museum Bake Off with Jewish Museum London we made strudel! Why not try making your own using this recipe, or read more about Clara Weingard's incredible mother who's baking inspired this week's challenge.
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.
Passover in our Collection
This Saturday is the beginning of Passover (also known as Pesach or Pesah), one of the most celebrated holidays in Jewish culture and marks the liberation of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. Learn more about the festival and some of the Passover items in our archives.
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.
The Great Jewish Museum Bake Off – Annie Conway’s Borekas
We have teamed up with Jewish Museum London to compete in the #GreatJewishMuseumBakeOff on Twitter!
Our Week Two challenge was borekas - discover the recipe and read the story that inspired us.
Become a museum foodie and take part in our Eat the Archives experience.
The Festival of Purim
Next week is the celebration of the Jewish festival of Purim, also known as the 'Feast of Lots', but do you know the story behind the festival? Find out here, and discover one of the Purim celebration stories from our collection.
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.
Corten and the new museum
You may have spotted the rust-coloured cladding on our new extension as you pass on Cheetham Hill Road. But what is it? Meet corten, an architectural trend bringing the contemporary and the historic together!
Experience Cheetham Hill Road as never before as the Bare Project Theatre Company invite you on a multi-sensory walk around Manchester’s historic Jewish quarter.
Join Theatre Chef Leo Burtin on an online culinary journey through our archives, where stories come alive through taste and you can join in from home.
Giving audiences a “flavour” of what to expect in the new museum
This February Theatre Chef Leo Burtin will be taking our audiences on an online culinary journey through our collection as we prepare for food to be at the heart of the new museum.
Discover the diversity of Jewish music and meet some of the emerging stars of the UK Jewish music scene through a series of digital films in What Does the Future Sound Like? as part of our Trailblazer season leading up to our 2021 reopening. Watch the films on our YouTube channel.
Our Creative Activists shine a light on Holocaust Memorial Day
Responding to the Holocaust Memorial Day theme ‘Light the Darkness' our Creative Activists have created their own artwork in response to stories from our collections and from speaking to local community members about their own relationship to the Holocaust. They have created a film to share their experiences, artwork and the stories and inspiration behind them.
Chanukah Lewinsky is back in office. Host of queer, Jewish cabaret Homos and Houmous (think Julie Walters on speed), they’ll be beaming campy quiz rounds direct to your living room featuring stories from our collection you never thought you needed to know…
Young people keep past stories alive for Holocaust Memorial Day
Young Activists Keep Past Stories Alive as Manchester Jewish Museum Marks Holocaust Memorial Day
In our latest Trailblazer, a group of young people will become Creative Activists as they explore and share stories to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, inspired by real life stories past and present.
Designing a “place for conversation”
As we look ahead to our reopening in 2021, architect Katy Marks from Citizens Design Bureau speaks about her inspiration and process for creating a museum that reflects the diversity of Manchester's Jewish Communities and creates a space for sharing and connection.
Time Capsule Discovery
Our builders have made an astonishing discovery of a time capsule hidden in the historic synagogue’s walls.
The sealed glass jar was discovered by a builder hidden deep in a wall cavern within our synagogue. Filled with money, synagogue papers and newspapers, these original artefacts are dated from the synagogue's foundation in 1873.