Jewish Museum Celebrates 130 Years

ORF (Austrian Public Broadcasting), November 17, 2025

German original: https://wien.orf.at/stories/3330334/

Vienna was home to the world's first Jewish museum, which opened 130 years ago. To mark this occasion, there will be an open house on November 23, 2025. Visitors will be able to view exhibitions at both museum locations free of charge.

At the Museum Dorotheergasse, visitors can learn about the permanent exhibition "Our City! Jewish Vienna to the Present Day“ from the perspective of the curator (1916–1938). There are also exhibition talks on the new show ”Black Jews, White Jews? On Skin Color and Prejudice," a mini Hebrew course, and a puzzle to participate in, which can be turned into a small newspaper, a so-called Mu-Zine.

Remembering the Shoah

At Judenplatz, the “Drüber & Drunter” tours take visitors beneath the square to the excavations of the medieval synagogue. The exhibition “Tell Me Where the Flowers Are” with photographs by Roger Cremers takes a critical look at the collective memory of World War II and the Shoah in Europe. And the play “The Rabbi on the Road” takes visitors on a historical journey from Vienna to Krems.