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The Jewish Museum in Prague ( Czech: Židovské muzeum v Praze) is a museum of Jewish heritage in the Czech Republic and one of the most visited museums in Prague. [1] Its collection of Judaica is one of the largest in the world, about 40,000 objects, 100,000 books, and a copious archive of Czech Jewish community histories.
Prague’s Jewish Museum, one of the oldest and continuously existing Jewish museums in the world, was founded in 1906. The mission of the museum is to document the history, traditions and customs of the Jewish population in Bohemia and preserve valuable artefacts from the Prague synagogues that were destroyed during the liquidation of the ...
This museum consists of six Jewish monuments clustered together in Josefov: the Maisel Synagogue; the Pinkas Synagogue; the Spanish Synagogue; the Klaus Synagogue; the Ceremonial Hall; and the Old Jewish Cemetery.
Established in 1906, the Jewish Museum in Prague is one of the oldest Jewish museums in Europe. Its founders were the historian Salomon Hugo Lieben and the representative of the Czech-Jewish movement and city councillor August Stein.
One of the most significant and richest members of the Prague Jewish community, Aron Mešullam Zalman Horowitz (Hořovský) built a private chapel between his own house and the Old Jewish cemetery in 1535. His grandson, Rabbi Pinkas Horowitz, named in Pinkas school.
Information and reservation centre is located in the heart of Prague's former Jewish Town on Maiselova Street. Here visitors will find an interactive information gateway with basic information on individual monuments and permanent exhibitions in the Jewish Town, but also selected Jewish sights in Prague and elsewhere in the Czech Republic, an ...
The Jewish Museum in Prague ticket includes the Maisel Synagogue, Pinkas Synagogue, Old Jewish Cemetery, Klausen Synagogue, Ceremonial Hall, Spanish Synagogue and temporary exhibitions in the Robert Guttmann Gallery. Admission 300Kč/200Kč, Children under 6 free. The starting point for an exploration of Prague's Jewish past and present.
