Jewish Museum Vienna
The Jewish Museum Vienna was established in 1988, and it carries a long, complicated lineage that reaches back to the first Jewish museum in Vienna. That earlier institution was founded in 1893 and opened in 1895, supported by the “Society for the Collection and Preservation of Artistic and Historical Memorials of Jewry,” and it collected objects that reflected debate over Zionism, alongside material tied to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the Anschluss in 1938, the museum closed and its contents were distributed among institutions such as the Museum für Völkerkunde and the Natural History Museum, where acquisitions were used for the anti-Semitic exhibition “The Corporeal and Spiritual Properties of the Jews.” In the early 1950s, most of that stock was restituted to the Jewish community (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien). Today the museum runs across two locations: the Palais Eskeles on Dorotheergasse and the site at Judenplatz. …
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