Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia
 Synagogue and Jewish Museum in Augsburg |
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| place | Augsburg , Germany |
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| architect | Fritz Landauer , Heinrich Lömpel |
| opening | 1985 |
| operator |
Jewish Culture Museum Augsburg Swabia Foundation
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| management |
Barbara Staudinger
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-252711 |
The Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia was established in 1985 under the name “Jüdisches Kulturmuseum Augsburg-Schwaben” in the west wing of the Augsburg synagogue , which was built between 1914 and 1917 in Halderstrasse. After it was used for other purposes during the Nazi era , the building was renovated between 1972 and 1985. In 1985 the museum was the first independent Jewish museum in the Federal Republic of Germany.
The Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia sees itself as a historical museum that uses Jewish history in Bavarian Swabia to create references to current social issues. It is a place where aspects of migration, integration, homeland and culture are discussed from the perspective of a minority and where it is shown that diversity is neither a threat nor an enrichment, but normality.
The museum has two locations. The permanent exhibition is housed in the city center and a visit to the Augsburg synagogue , which was inaugurated in 1917 and used by the Jewish Community of Swabia-Augsburg, is part of the visit . The former Kriegshaber Synagogue was opened in 2014 and is located in the oldest surviving synagogue in Bavarian Swabia.
The museum works nationally in the "Network of historical synagogue sites in Bavarian Swabia".
Since November 2018 the museum has been called the Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia.
exhibition
The museum documents the culture and history of the Jews in Augsburg and Swabia from the Middle Ages to the present day. The permanent exhibition, which opened in November 2006, shows Jewish history as an interplay between settlement and expulsion and between self-assertion and adaptation. It directs our attention to the relationship between the Jewish minority and the Christian majority and makes Jewish history clear as an integral part of Augsburg and Swabian history.
The focus of the collection is on ritual and cult objects from the 17th to 20th centuries and twenty Torah signs. Various loans from the Bavarian National Museum in Munich and from private collectors complete the museum's collection.
Most of the silver objects on display come from destroyed synagogues in Bavarian Swabia. Some of them show the astonishing links between Jewish and Christian culture. A changing installation in the permanent exhibition presents the Jewish festivals of the year, including a. the Jewish New Year celebrations of Rosh Hashanah and Passover .
Location Former Kriegshaber Synagogue
The former Kriegshaber Synagogue , the oldest surviving synagogue in Bavarian Swabia , has been another location of the Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia since 2014.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Home. Retrieved February 11, 2019 .
- ^ A new name for the Jewish Museum in Augsburg. (PDF) Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia, December 7, 2018, accessed on August 18, 2020 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '55.7 " N , 10 ° 53' 31.2" E