The rooms
The Gallery of Ancient Marbles
The Ancient Marbles Gallery is a suggestive space where the marbles, of the utmost importance for the history of the Jewish Community of Rome and dating back to the XVI-XIX
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
Room 2 – From Judaei to Giudei: Rome and its Jews
Tombstones casts from Rome catacombs and from Ostia Antica synagogue, Middle Age manuscripts, plants of the city characterize this room in which the uninterrupted presence of the Jews in Rome,
Room 3 – Feasts of the year, feasts of life
The room is dedicated to the events that mark the time of Judaism: prayer, the Shabat, the annual Jewish holidays and the cycle of life. In each showcase the recurrences of
Room 4 – The treasures of the Five Scole
Silver, precious fabrics and polychrome marbles: the room is a tribute to the objects that the Jews of the ghetto donated to their synagogues and the occasion to explain their
Room 5 – Life and Synagogues in the Ghetto
Language and cuisine, urban space and architecture, education and assistance bodies: everyday life in the ghetto in Rome narrated through objects and documents.
Room 6 – From emancipation to today
The video A Star on the Tiber, the Jews in Rome from the Emancipation to the present, is presented in a continuous loop in Italian and in English. It traces
Room 7 – Libyan Judaism Hall
On 8 December 2009, the museum inaugurated the Libyan Judaism Hall, dedicated to the immigration of Jewish refugees transferred to Rome in 1967. Under the protection of the UN and