This past weekend was the 20th edition of the annual Night of Museums in much of Europe — and we were happy to see many Jewish museums and other heritage institutions taking part.
On the Night of Museums, museums and other cultural sites are open until the wee hours, with many of them featuring special programs, guided tours, and other activities.
Here are just a few of the Jewish sites that took part this year — it’s just a selection from seven countries, and we know there were more activities, so please add them in the comments!
— Old Jewish Cemetery, Gliwice, Poland — The cemetery was open and hosted numerous visitors
— Mendelsohn House, Olsztyn, Poland — the Borussia Olsztyn Cultural Society invited visitors to watch Adam Smoczyński’s film “Erich Mendelsohn – Architect from Olsztyn”. There was a guided tour of the historic building. There were many questions – including about the original color in the main hall, architectural solutions used by Erich Mendelsohn in his first building and the history of the Jewish cemetery in Olsztyn
— In Warsaw, the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Okopowa Street Jewish cemetery
— In Kraków — the Galicia Jewish Museum
— In Oświęcim — Jewish Museum Oshpitzin and Cafe Bergson
— In Lviv — In the Footsteps of Galician Jews museum at Hesed Aryeh
— The Lost Shtetl – Dingęs Štetlas — commemorative complex and developing museum in Seduva, Lithuania. It staged a presentation of the project in the Vilnius City Municipality Central Library Bibliobus.
— In Vilnius, the Lithuanian Jewish Museum and Vilnius Ghetto Museum
— The Synagogue in Subotica, Serbia
— The Jewish Museum of Rome, Italy
— The Museum of the Art and History of Judaism MAHJ, in Paris
— The synagogue in Pfaffenhoffen, France
— In Cluj-Napoca, Romania — Babeș-Bolyai University Holocaust Museum
— The Synagogue, Târgu Mureș, România
— In Oradea, Romania — the Zion Synagogue and the Jewish Museum in the Hinech Neorim Synagogue
