About the Jewish Museum
The Jewish Museum preserves a unique collection of more than 30,000 works of art, archaeology, and ceremonial objects, while presenting exhibitions that relate to the global Jewish experience over 3,500 years. Bridging past and present, the Jewish Museum explores cross-cultural influences and offers new insights into key narratives that shape the human experience.
Event Details
Events are open to current Columbia and Barnard students, faculty, and staff only on a first-come, first-served basis with limited capacity.
3:20PM: Check in at the Jewish Museum lobby
Location
Jewish Museum
1109 5th Avenue at 92nd Street
New York, NY 10128
About The Exhibition
Featuring more than 200 works, Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum unfolds across the Museum’s third floor in a thematic and chronologically integrated presentation of its unparalleled holdings. The installation design supports the display of art and objects of vastly varying scale and materiality, from delicate archaeological artifacts and Jewish ceremonial works to large-scale contemporary painting and sculpture.
The Jewish Museum’s renewed and newly opened fourth floor features the Pruzan Family Center for Learning, where art and objects from the collection are displayed in gallery settings, adjacent to facilities for educational programming and hands-on artmaking. These two floors are joined visually by a renovated double-height gallery crowned by a dramatic, monumentally scaled installation of more than 130 Hanukkah lamps from around the world, and from antiquity to the present day, underscoring the central meaning of light as a symbol of enlightenment and hope across cultures.
For more information, please visit the exhibition website.
Images: Installation views of “Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum” / photos by Kris Graves / courtesy of the Jewish Museum