This week is your last chance to see the longstanding exhibits in the Klausen synagogue and Ceremonial Hall, which form part of the Prague Jewish Museum.
Both buildings will be closed July 1 and their exhibits will be removed — brand new exhibits, which are expected to be quite different, will be installed.
The baroque Klausen Synagogue, built in 1694, is the largest synagogue in Prague’s Jewish quarter. It and the Ceremonial Hall, built in the early 20th century at the edge of the Old Jewish Cemetery, have for decades housed an exhibit on Jewish customs and traditions. They mainly feature traditional displays of ritual objects and other artefacts, which include some of the museum’s best known items.
With their closure, the museum states, “This is your last chance to learn about the purpose and activities of the Burial Brotherhood, view an unrolled Torah scroll, or literally walk through the Jewish Course of Life, which includes birth, circumcision, adulthood, marriage, and eventually even divorce.”
Here below we post some photos of the longstanding exhibit in the Klausen synagogue — including an old postcard of the exhibit as it was in Communist times, when the museum was run by the state.
