Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme

Art museum and of history of the Judaïsme, that develops on three wings, between a monumental course and a garden, exposes ethnographie collections and of cultural art, of the swindle and paints of the XVIIIème to the XXème centuries, models of synagogues, worship objects.
Some native ones of europe Central persons, will be founded a museum in 1948, street of the Willows in the XVIIIème district, in order to perpetuate to remember it jewish communities disappeared in the Shoah. This first museum will benefit from the gift, in 1951, American organization Jewish Restitution Successor Organization, loaded with redistribution of the cultural goods Jews despoiled by the nazis. The museum will meet equally a documentation relating to the architecture of the Poland synagogues and of Russia (models, old publications, photograph).
The art museum and of history of the Judaïsme presents equally works lent and put collections in deposit by of big French institutions. The Center Georges Pompidou entrusted for him in certain deposits major works of jewish artists of the beginning of the XXème century (Chagall of the Russian period, Soutine, Lipchitz. ..). The National Library of France, certain French museums and jewish museums foreigners, several jewish institutions as well as many donors will participate in the enrichment of the collections

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Contact Information

Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme
71, rue du Temple
75003 Paris

Tel. +33153018660

http://www.mahj.org