Discover the new Virtual Tour of the Jewish Museum of Rome.
The Great Synagogue
The Spanish Synagogue
The jewish quarter
Exhibitions
AND THE ART OF FABRIC TOLD THE STORY OF JEWISH ITALY
At the Uffizi until the end of October an unpublished exhibition with 140 works including tapestries, lace, fabrics and decorations. The history of Italian Jews observed from a new and chromatically kaleidoscopic perspective, that of the art of fabric: it is All the...
LUDWIG POLLAK
Archaeologist and art dealerOn the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth, in Prague in 1868, and 80 years after the promulgation of the Racial Laws in Italy, the Jewish Museum of Rome and the Ancient Giovanni Barracco Museum of Sculpture host the exhibition...
THE PROMISED LAND. Towards Israel, the country milk and honey
On the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the birth of the State of Israel, the Jewish Museum of Rome inaugurates the photo exhibition THE PROMISED LAND. Towards Israel, the country milk and honey. The destruction of the second Temple of Jerusalem in 70 of the...
Events
Museums in music
Argentieri piemontesi del ‘700
On Wednesday 22nd May, at 6.30 pm, in our Room 3 - Year and life Cycle Celebrations – in Via Catalana (Great Synagogue) - a presentation of the volume Argentieri piemontesi del 700, Trovati e Ritrovati, by Gianfranco Fina, Skirà Edition, Milan, 2018, took place. The...
Piero Sadun – Memories
Piero Sadun, a Jewish painter from Tuscany, was born in Siena in 1919. His father, Giacomo, was a trade representative in the food sector, who had been registered with the National Fascist Party since 1932, and as a volunteer in the First World War, was awarded the...
The rooms
The Gallery of Ancient Marbles
The Gallery of Ancient Marbles is a suggestive space where the marbles dating back to the XVI-XIX centuries are collected, of the utmost importance for the history of the Jewish Community of Rome. Some remember the legacies of wealthy families, others document the...
Room 1 – The Fabric Wardrobe
Renaissance velvets decorated with gold threads, embroideries and lace of the Baroque age, French eighteenth-century lampas: a world of grace and richness that has come down to us from the age of the ghetto. The museum has about 900 fabrics, some of which are...
Room 2 – From Judaei to Giudei: Rome and its Jews
Gravestones from tombstones from the catacombs of Rome and from the synagogue of Ostia Antica, manuscripts from the Middle Ages, city plans characterize this room in which the origin of the presence, unbroken for over two thousand years, of the Jews in the city of...
Reservation
For individual visitors booking is not compulsory, but required only if you wish to visit the Museum and the Synagogue with a private tour.
The Jewish Museum organizes two daily tours of the Jewish Quarter: the tour in English takes place at 1.30pm and the tour in Italian at 3.00pm. Visits can be booked on our website site, up to 30 minutes before the tour starts at Museum ticket hall.
