Discover the permanent collection
With seven hundred artworks and objects, the permanent collection proposes a history of the Jewish communities of Europe and the Mediterranean from the Middle Ages to today.
For your safety, there are heightened security procedures when you arrive at the museum.
Jules Adler. Painter of the people
Jules Adler (1865-1952) was born into an Alsatian Jewish family at Luxeuil-les-Bains in Franche-Comté. The powerful and singular oeuvre of this painter of the second naturalist generation is little known to the public today, yet one of his pictures, The Strike at Le Creusot (1899), became an iconic image of the workers’ struggle and has been frequently reproduced in history books.
Adolfo Kaminsky. Forger and photographer
Adolfo Kaminsky, a member of the Resistance and a brilliant forger, spent thirty years of his life producing counterfeit identity papers to save lives. He discovered photography during the Second World War reproducing official stamps for forged identity cards.
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Come and discover the mahJ's collections with your family
and enjoy the family kit. It's booklet, full of activities designed for playing and creating, is also in English. The family kit is available free of charge at the ticket desk.
Good to know : some of these are particularly adapted to children from three years of age.
Guided tours available for groups
The guided tours "Discover the mahJ" which tells the story of Jews in France and the "Walking tour of the Jewish district of the Marais, in Paris" are planned every other Sunday from mid-May to mid-August at 3 pm.
These guided tours are available for groups in English, German, Hebrew, and Spanish.
Discover two hangings in the permanent collection
- A recent donation and a major work of Georges Jeanclos "The Guerry columns" commemorates the massacres on July and August 1944 of thirty-six Jews, near Bourges in France.
- Rosine Cahen. Drawings from the Great War : an echo of Jules Adlers'work on the Great War.
