Jewish Museums of the World

2 Eastern and Central Europe

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1. Kiev. Center for Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry
2. Moscow. Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
3. Sarajevo. Muzej Libreja Sarajeva
4. Belgrade. Jevrejski istorijski muzej
5. Budapest. Magyar Zsidó Múzeum es Lévéltar
6. Warsaw. Żydowski Instytut Historyczny
7. Warsaw. Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich
8. Prague. Židovské muzeum v Praze
9. Vienna. Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wiem
10. Bratislava. Židovské Komunitné Múzeum
11. Cracow (Poland). Żydowskie Muzeum Galicja
12. Riga (Latvia). Muzejs “Ebreji Latvijā”
13. Vilna (Lithuania). Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono Žydụ Muziejus
14. Loopholes (L’viv, Ukraine). Ukranian Museum of Ethnology and Crafts.
15. Odesa (Ukraine). Jewish Museum of Odessa.
16. Eisenstadt (Austria). Öesterreichisches Jüdisches Museum
17. Hohenems (Austria). Jüdisches Museum Hohenems
18. Krakow. Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Stara Synagoga
19. Vitebsk (Belarus). Museo Marc Chagall
20. Vienna. Museum Judenplatz
21. Vienna. Sigmund Freud Museum

3 North America

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Canada

1. Toronto (Ontario). Reuben & Helene Dennis Museum Beth Tzedec Congregation
2. Montreal (Quebec). Musée du Montréal Juif
3. Vancouver. Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia
4. Winnipeg (Manitoba). Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada / Marion & Ed Vickar Jewish Museum of Western Canada
5. Saint John (New Brunswick). Saint John Jewish Historical Museum
6. Montreal (Quebec). Centre commémoratif de l’Holocauste à Montréal
7. Toronto (Ontario). Koffler Centre of the Arts
8. Toronto (Ontario). Jewish Canadian Military Museum

United States of America

1. New York. Jewish Museum
2. Philadelphia (Pennsylvania). National Museum of American Jewish History
3. Philadelphia (Pennsylvania). The Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art
4. Washington DC. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
5. Washington DC. B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum
6. Los Angeles (California). Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH)
7. Los Angeles (California). Museum of Tolerance – A Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum
8. San Francisco (California). Contemporary Jewish Museum
9. Atlanta (Georgia). Breman Museum (The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum)
10.  Newport (Rhode Island). Touro Synagogue
11.  Miami. Jewish Museum of Florida
12.  Baltimore (Maryland). Jewish Museum of Maryland
13.  Denver (Colorado). Mizel Museum (Museo Mizel)
14.  Los Angeles (California). Skirball Cultural Center
15.  Beachwood (Ohio). The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, The Museum of Diversity and Tolerance.
16.  Portland (Oregon). Oregon Jewish Museum.
17.  Anchorage (Alaska). Alaska Historical Jewish Museum
18.  Berkeley. The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
19.  Pittsburg (Pennsylvania). American Jewish Museum
20.  Farmington Hills (cerca de Detroit, Michigan). Holocaust Memorial Center (HMC)
21.  Tulsa (Oklahoma). The Serwin Miller Museum for Jewish Art
22.  Newark (New Jersey). Jewish Museum of New Jersey
23.  Woodbine (New Jersey). The Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage
24.  Durham (Carolina del Norte). Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina
25.  Jackson (Mississipí). Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience
26.  Milwaukee (Wisconsin). Jewish Museum Milwaukee
27.  Portland (Maine). Maine Jewish Museum
28.  Dallas (Texas). Museum of Biblical Art
29.  Dallas (Texas). Dallas Holocaust Museum
30.  Houston (Texas). Holocaust Museum Houston
31.  San Antonio (Texas). Holocaust Memorial Museum San Antonio
32.  Tucson (Arizona). The Jewish History Museum
33.  T. Petersburg (Florida). Florida Holocaust Museum
34.  New York. Simon Wiesenthal Center
35.  New York. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
36.  New York. Yeshiva University Museum
37.  New York. Jewish Children Museum
38.  New York. Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum
39. New York. Museum of Jewish Heritage

Complete list of the Council of American Jewish Museums(CAJM), 89 in total.

4 Latin America

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1. Rio de Janeiro. Museu Judaico do Rio de Janeiro (Jewish Museum of Rio de Janeiro)
2. Sao Paulo. Museu Judaico de Sao Paulo (Jewish Museum of Sao Paulo)
3. Buenos Aires. Museo Judío de Buenos Aires (Jewish Museum of Buenos Aires)
4. Santiago de Chile. Museo Interactivo Judío de Chile (Jewish Museum of Chile)
5. Mexico City. Museo Tuvie Maiziel (Jewish Historical and Holocaust Museum)
6. Caracas. Museo Sefardí de Caracas Morris E. Curiel.
7. Curaçao (Antillas Holandesas). Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue Jewish Cultural Historical Museum
8. Bridgetown (Barbados). Nidhe Israel Synagogue
9. Montevideo. Museo de la Shoá Uruguay (Shoa Museum of Uruguay)
10.  Moisés Ville (Santa Fé, Argentina), Museo Histórico Comunal y de la Colonización Judía. (Jewish Historical Communnity and Colonization Museum)
11.  Asunción. Museo Judío del Paraguay (Jewish Museum of Paraguay)

5 Asia

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Israel

1.  Jerusalem. Muze’on Yisrael
2. Jerusalem. Yad Vashem (The World Holocaust Remembrance Center)
3. Tel Aviv. Beit Hatfutsot – The Museum of the Jewish People
4. Tel Aviv. Muze’on Tel Aviv Lamanut / Tel Aviv Museum of Art
5. Tel Aviv. Eretz Israel Museum
6. Haifa. Haifa Museum of Art
7. Jerusalem. Siebenberg  House
8. Jerusalem. Friends of Zion Museum In Jerusalem
9. Jerusalem. Herzl Museum
10.  Beersheva. Negev Museum of Art

Official list of Museums in Israel (61 museums).

China

1. Shanghai. Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum
2. Kaifeng Synagogue
3. The Sino-Judaic Institute

India

1. Cochin. Paradesi Synagogue

6 Africa

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1. Casablanca. Musée du Judaïsme Marocain de Casablanca
2. Cape Town. South African Jewish Museum
3. Djerba (Tunisia). Synagoghe de la Ghriba

7 Australia

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1. Victoria. Jewish Museum of Australia
2. Sidney. Sidney Jewish Museum
3. Adelaide. Adelaide Jewish Museum

Institutions of Jewish Museums

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• AEJM: Association of European Jewish Museums
• CAJM: Council of American Jewish Museums
• Museums in Israel http://museumsinisrael.gov.il/en/Pages/default.aspx

This document, Jewish Museums of the World, was written by Diego Moldes González, after reviewing over two hundred bibliographic and digital resources, and using as its main source the following book:

–  COHEN GROSSMAN, Grace (2003), Jewish Museums of the World, Col. Beaux Arts Editions, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Fairfield, Connecticut.

Madrid, 4 December 2016.