Österreichisches Jüdisches Museum, Jewish museum in Eisenstadt, Austria.
The Austrian Jewish Museum is located in the historic Wertheimerhouse and displays exhibitions about Jewish life across multiple gallery spaces. The collection features religious objects, photographs, and documents spanning several centuries of Austrian Jewish history.
The museum was founded in 1972 by Kurt Schubert and was the first Jewish museum to open in Austria after World War II. The institution documents the long presence of the Jewish community in the country and their rebuilding after the war.
The collection displays religious objects and personal belongings that show how the community lived from day to day. You can see how people here celebrated their holidays and kept their traditions alive.
The museum is located at Unterbergstrasse 6 and offers guided tours in multiple languages that provide deeper insight into the exhibitions. School groups and larger visitor groups can take advantage of educational programs designed for more in-depth engagement with the material.
The museum's private synagogue, with its separate women's room, is part of the exhibition rooms today. Samson Wertheimer, who had the house built in 1719, was a merchant at the Vienna court and Chief Rabbi of Hungary; the Esterházy family financed the building for his services.
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