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The Museum is CLOSED on October 15–16 and October 19 due to ongoing renovation work.

The first floor gallery space is closed for renovation work. The Museum remains open for general visitation.

Image of the back of a person's head looking at a map of the Pale of Settlement Map. The map says: "The Great Jewish Migration".

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

A menorah where each candle holder is a statue of liberty.

LIGHTING THE WORLD: MENORAHS AROUND THE GLOBE

December 2018 – Present

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PAST EXHIBITIONS

FIRST LIGHT: BIRTH IN THE JEWISH TRADITION

December 4, 2025 – July 29, 2026

ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE:
28 REMARKABLE WOMEN...
AND ONE SCOUNDREL

December 3, 2023 through May 5, 2024

STEVE MARCUS: TOP DOG OF KOSHER POP ART

May 12, 2022 – November 6, 2022

HARBIN, CHINA | PAST/PRESENT

April 2019 – October 2019

LET THERE BE LIGHT

November 2017 – February 2018

LOST SYNAGOGUES

March 2017 – September 2017

LOWER EAST SIDE, 1975: PORTRAIT OF A CHANGING JEWISH NEIGHBORHOOD

December 3, 2024 – November 23, 2025

A COLLAGE OF CUSTOMS

May 11, 2023 – November 19, 2023

DEBRA OLIN: EVERY PROTECTION - FOLK BELIEF AND MOTHERHOOD IN THE JEWISH PALE OF SETTLEMENT

October 14, 2021 – April 24, 2022

RELEASING WORDS: THE CUT PAPER ART OF DEBORAH UGORETZ

April 12, 2019

REDISCOVERY, RESTORATION AND RENEWAL

September 2017 – March 2018

JEWISH GHETTO IN POSTCARDS

December 2016 – March 2017

MEMORY AND INHERITANCE: PAINTINGS AND CEREMONIAL OBJECTS BY TOBI KAHN

May 16, 2024 – November 10, 2024

UPON THY GATES

November 13, 2022 – April 23, 2023

PRESSED: IMAGES FROM THE JEWISH DAILY FORWARD

October 2019 – October 2021

KIKI SMITH: BEYOND THE HORIZON

April 2018 – October 2018

MARK PODWAL

September 2016 – December 2016

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