Coordinates: 51°32′13″N 0°8′40″W / 51.53694°N 0.14444°W
The Jewish Museum is a museum of Jewish life and art, in the London Borough of Camden, on the northern fringes of central London, England. It was founded in 1932, in the Jewish communal headquarters in Bloomsbury, and in 1995 moved to its current site in Camden Town. Until recently it had a sister museum in Finchley, operated the same charitable trust and sited within the Sternberg Centre, but this branch closed in 2007 and at the same time the Camden branch closed for major building and extension work, which is still ongoing. The £14 million renovation, which is expected to treble the museum's space, is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and private donations. It is expected to be completed in 2010, when the collections of both the Finchley and Camden branches will be displayed at the redeveloped Camden site. [1][2]
It holds a major international-level collection of Jewish ceremonial art including the notable Lindo lamp an early example of a British Menorah (Hanukkah).[3] The new building will include new gallery entitled "Judaism: A Living Faith," designed to display the museum's "magnificent" collection of Jewish ceremonial art. The Museum's collection of ceremonial art has been awarded "designated" status by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council in recognition of its outstanding national importance. [4] Chagall kept the painting in his personal collection. It was initially sold by the artist’s son in 1985 to a private collector in France. In October 2009, the museum made headlines for its US$43,000 purchase of Apocalypse in Lilac, Capriccio, a never before seen 1945 painting by Marc Chagall.[5]
The museum also has exhibitions recounting the history of Jewish life in England, supported by a diverse collection of objects. There are also collections of paintings, prints and drawings, and an archive of photographs, which consists mainly of black and white photographs from the 1900s to the 1940s.
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