Type:

Luoghi della cultura; Ente/Istituzione

Category:

Archaeology museums; Museums of natural history and natural sciences; Ethnography and anthropology museums

The Jewish Museum in Rome, housed in the monumental complex of the Great Synagogue, has been open since 1960 and holds the collection of the Jewish Community of Rome: Roman silver of the 17th and 18th centuries, precious fabrics from all over Europe, decorated parchments and marbles saved from the demolition of the ghetto’s Cinque Scole. The museum reopened in 2005 with seven completely new exhibition rooms and an educational itinerary (panels in Italian, English and Hebrew) organised to highlight the magnificent art objects and precious documents that narrate two millennia of history of the Jews of Rome, the relations between Jews and the city, the feasts of the year and those of life. It is a unique reference point for discovering the traditions, religion and history of the Roman Jews who belong one of the oldest communities in the world. Apart from the possibility of watching (in Italian and English) the 35-minute video Una stella sul Tevere. Gli ebrei di Roma dall’emancipazione ad oggi (A star on the Tiber. The Jews of Rome from emancipation to today), the tour itinerary covers the Garden, with the Gallery of Antique Marbles, and two synagogues – the Great Synagogue and the Spanish Temple.