Jewish Museum

museum, New York City, New York, United States
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1904 - present

Jewish Museum, museum in New York City displaying art and objects of Jewish culture from the past 4,000 years. The Jewish Museum was founded in 1904 with only 26 pieces and was originally located in the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary. In 1946 the museum moved to the Felix Warburg mansion (see Warburg family), located on New York City’s “Museum Mile” on Fifth Avenue. The Jewish Museum is one of the foremost museums of its kind. Its permanent collection contains tens of thousands of unique objects, ranging from ancient cultural artifacts to artwork by contemporary Jewish artists, organized in ...(100 of 214 words)