Danish Jewish Museum

Proviantpassagen 6
DK-1218 Copenhagen K.
Entry from the Garden of the Royal Library
www.jewmus.dk
info@jewmus.dk

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Phone: + 45 33 11 22 18
Fax: +45 33 11 22 90

Opening hours: Winter: Tuesday – Friday 13.00-16.00, Saturday – Sunday 12.00-17.00. Summer: ( June 1- August 31): Tuesday – Sunday 10.00-17.00

Entrance fee: adults 40 DKK, pensioners and students 30 DKK, children under 16 free. Annual pass 150 DKK

Facts

The institution

The Danish Jewish Museum is an independent institution and a centre of knowledge about Danish Jewish culture and history.

Logo

The Hebrew word Mitzvah is the Museum’s logo. It means “the good deed” and humanity.

Shop

The Museum shop sells books, music and design within many different Jewish topics.

A museum of versatility: a different look at being Danish and being Jewish

Cultural history in a special room

Jews have lived in Denmark for 400 years and their culture is a part of common Danish life. At the Danish Jewish Museum the Danish cultural history is told as seen from the different angle of a minority perspective. The story is told in a spectacular room, created by the world famous architect Daniel Liebeskind for the Danish Jewish Museum under the old arches of the Galejhus (galley house).

The questions posed by the exhibition

A visit to the Danish Jewish Museum raises many questions: what was it like arriving to Denmark and creating a home here? How does Jewish and Danish culture merge? What is it like to be a proud Danish citizen and at the same time a member of an old worldwide minority? There are many questions to think about…

Everyday Jews

To be Jewish in Denmark has more than anything been a story about peaceful coexistence and cultural exchange. At the Danish Jewish Museum the story is told through the things, images and sounds that have been preserved from centuries of Jewish life. The Museum shows both exotic, beautiful, strange and cruel things – as well as completely recognizable everyday objects. Hear jokes told in Yiddish – and see the valuable gift, which was given by the Jews of Altona to the Danish King Christian VII, when he was crowned.

A museum about identity

The Danish Jewish Museum is a peephole into the Jewish universe for all those interested – and at the same time it is also about identity in a world which is constantly changing. Danish culture has a Jewish facet - and Jewish culture has a Danish facet. The about 7000 Jews living in Denmark is a mixed group and a Jew is not just a Jew. There are numerous ways to be Jewish. The Museum lets the many voices speak and show some of the many lives.

The Museum engages the body

With its special room the Danish Jewish Museum is a different museum experience. You cannot help getting into close contact with the Museum, where the floor tilts and the walls twist. The Museum engages the body of the visitor. The exhibition does not have a set sequence, so each visitor has their own experience.

The good deed

The room at the Danish Jewish Museum was created from the four letters in the Hebrew word ”Mitzvah”, which means “the good deed” – it is the architect Daniel Libeskind’s way of capturing the unique characteristic in Danish Jewish culture, which survived the Nazi persecution of the Jews almost unharmed, thanks to the help of Danish fellow citizens. The Danish Jewish Museum is not a holocaust museum, but a museum about living Jewish culture – and a tribute to humanity and openness among cultures.