Featuring more than 200 works, Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum unfolds across the Museum’s third floor in a thematic and chronologically integrated presentation of its unparalleled holdings, from delicate archaeological artifacts and Jewish ceremonial works to large-scale contemporary painting and sculpture.
Also on the third floor are a series of special focus galleries, in which are presented a rotation of installations that can be viewed on the Exhibitions page.
The Museum’s renewed fourth floor features the Pruzan Family Center for Learning, where art and objects from the collection are displayed in gallery settings, adjacent to facilities for educational programming and hands-on artmaking and a monumentally scaled installation of more than 130 Hanukkah lamps from around the world, from antiquity to the present day.
The Jewish Museum’s renovated collection galleries trace the rich history of migration, assimilation, and endurance that is the trademark of Jewish culture across the global diaspora through a new and expansive installation. Punctuated by a series of rotating focus exhibitions, Identity, Culture, and Community provides a thematic structure to reflect the diversity of Jewish experience through artworks and decorative objects, ranging from Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Mizrahi ritual objects that are steeped in tradition, to large-scale painting and sculpture by boundary-pushing modern and contemporary artists, among them Mel Bochner, Nicole Eisenman, Eva Hesse, Lee Krasner, Louise Nevelson, Mark Rothko, Michal Rovner, Miriam Schapiro, and many others.
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