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Yeshiva University Museum
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY
Phone: 212-294-8330 - Tty: -
Statement of Purpose
To preserve, enrich and interpret Jewish life as it is reflected in the
arts, history and sciences.
A Brief History
Since its founding in 1973, Yeshiva University Museum’s changing
exhibits have celebrated the culturally diverse intellectual and
artistic achievements of 3,000
years of Jewish experience. The Museum provides a window into Jewish
culture around the world and throughout history through its acclaimed
multi-disciplinary
exhibitions and award-winning publications. By educating audiences of
all ages
with dynamic interpretations of Jewish life, past and present, along
with
wide-ranging cultural offerings and programs, the Museum attracts young
and
old, Jewish and non-Jewish audiences.
Highlights & Collections
Exhibitions
& Programs
YUM shares
this new
state-of-the-art facility with four partners, three of whom are
renowned
research and archival institutions focusing on specific aspects of
Jewish
history and culture: YIVO, the American Jewish Historical Society,
American
Sephardic Federation, and the Leo Baeck Institute. The Museum has four
galleries, an exhibition arcade, an outdoor sculpture garden, a docent
lounge,
and a children’s workshop room, in addition to its own suite of
offices. The
Museum has access to a 250 seat, handicapped-accessible auditorium with
a
state-of-the- art AV projection room, various smaller meeting rooms, a
lunchroom and a kosher cafe'.
Yeshiva University Museum presents exhibitions
with an
interdisciplinary focus that reflect the diversity of the Museum’s
collection
of more than 8,000 artifacts. “Our primary focus is the interpretation
of
Jewish history from a multi-disciplinary perspective, and we produce
two types
of exhibitions, usually shown concurrently,” explains director Sylvia
A.
Herskowitz. “One exhibit examines a Jewish community or historic event;
the other
features emerging or established contemporary artists working on Jewish
themes.” Occasionally, the Museum presents traveling exhibitions.
As a resource for scholarly research, Yeshiva University Museum’s
exhibitions
provide unique opportunities for artists, historians, collectors, and
ethnographers to examine, compare, and research objects, ideas, and
techniques.
Its contemporary art shows offer the public the opportunity to survey
art being
created by living Jewish artists throughout the world.
Yeshiva University Museum’s programs are designed
to expand
the intellectual and creative imagination of its diverse audiences.
They
include family craft workshops, lectures, films, concerts, and
multilingual
exhibition tours in English, Hebrew, Spanish, Russian, and Yiddish.
Collections
Yeshiva University
Museum's diverse collection
of more
than 8,000 artifacts reflects its interdisciplinary approach; it
includes fine
and folk art, ethnographic and archaeological artifacts, clothing and
textiles,
Jewish ceremonial objects, documents, books and manuscripts. The
collection's
breadth and diversity represents over 2,000 years of the aesthetic
sensibilities of Jews living throughout the world, co-existing in
multicultural
societies.
Highlights of the Museum's collection include: Archaeological artifacts
dating
from the Bronze Age to the Late Antique Period, Historic illuminated
manuscripts such as one from 1478 recording the Simon of Trent blood
libel
trial. Thomas Jefferson's handwritten letter of 1818 affirming
religious
freedom and denouncing anti-Semitism; the Torah scroll and Tefillin of
the Baal
Shem Tov (1700-1760), founder of the Hassidic movement. Clothing, and
accessories from around the world, such as a gold embroidered Ottoman
bindalli
wedding dress, a Moroccan keswa el kbira (grand costume), and a kroj, a
Czechoslovakian national costume made for a child in 1932/3.
Yeshiva University
Museum's collections are a
repository for several significant collections of Jewish art and
material
culture, including:
- Models of historic synagogues
commissioned for our founding
- Meyerhoff Collection of early Israeli
Art
- Jean Moldovan Collection of Jewish
Children's Books
- Raphael Patai Amulet collection
- Max Stern Collection of Judaica
Exhibits & Special Events
Hours:
- Sunday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday 11 am - 5 pm
Admission & Directions:
- Adults $8
Seniors and students $6
Children under 5 free
Free for Yeshiva University Museum Members
Free with valid Y.U. ID card
Key Personnel:
Bonni-Dara Michaels, Collections Curator
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