London's new Jewish Museum gears up for grand opening in March
The Jewish Museum in London is gearing up for its public opening on March 16 and staff are working behind the scenes to get the ambitious £10 million project finished.
The original museum has tripled in size by expanding into a 19th century piano factory at the rear of the building, allowing the museum to showcase its collections in a state of the art space packed with displays and interactives.
Visitors will enter the Museum through the Welcome Gallery where images of today’s Jewish community flash up on screens reflecting and celebrating the diversity of one of the country’s oldest minority communities.
Reaching the stairs that lead to the further galleries they will pass one of the Museum’s largest pieces – a medieval Mikveh Bath discovered in London in 2001. The Jewish ritual bath, which dates to the mid-thirteenth century offers evidence of the religious and cultural life led by the Jewish community prior to their expulsion from England in 1290. It has been painstakingly pieced back together in the Museum....
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The original museum has tripled in size by expanding into a 19th century piano factory at the rear of the building, allowing the museum to showcase its collections in a state of the art space packed with displays and interactives.
Visitors will enter the Museum through the Welcome Gallery where images of today’s Jewish community flash up on screens reflecting and celebrating the diversity of one of the country’s oldest minority communities.
Reaching the stairs that lead to the further galleries they will pass one of the Museum’s largest pieces – a medieval Mikveh Bath discovered in London in 2001. The Jewish ritual bath, which dates to the mid-thirteenth century offers evidence of the religious and cultural life led by the Jewish community prior to their expulsion from England in 1290. It has been painstakingly pieced back together in the Museum....