The Rooms
Jewish Museum of Rome
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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....