Jewish Museum in Prague
Historic synagogues and the Old Jewish Cemetery in Josefov, shown on a single museum route.
Founded in 1906 to preserve objects from the synagogues demolished during the clearance of the Prague ghetto, the Jewish Museum in Prague holds one of the largest collections of Judaica in the world, numbering around 40,000 objects and 100,000 books. Much of it was assembled during the Second World War, when Jewish communities across Bohemia and Moravia sent their property to Prague; the museum was nationalised in 1950 and returned to the Jewish community in 1994.
Rather than occupying a single building, the museum shows its collections across the surviving monuments of Josefov. Its route takes in the Maisel Synagogue, the Klausen Synagogue and Ceremonial Hall, the Pinkas Synagogue, whose walls bear the names of nearly 80,000 Czech and Moravian Holocaust victims, the Moorish-revival Spanish Synagogue of 1868, and the Old Jewish Cemetery, where burials were made in layers from the fifteenth century until 1787.
Highlights
- Old Jewish Cemetery with thousands of crowded headstones
- Pinkas Synagogue memorial naming almost 80,000 Holocaust victims
- Moorish-revival Spanish Synagogue of 1868
- Children's drawings made in the Terezín ghetto, 1942-1944
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