Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum and Pruzan Family Center for Learning

Over 200 works spanning from ancient artifacts to contemporary art trace Jewish diaspora, migration, and cultural identity across millennia.

Why go

The Jewish Museum's renovated third and fourth floors present a thematic, non-linear narrative of Jewish creative expression—from ceremonial objects and archaeological pieces to large-scale works by Rothko, Hesse, Krasner, and Eisenman—anchored by a floor-to-ceiling display of 130+ Hanukkah lamps, the museum's largest ever.

What to expect

Installation-based galleries organized thematically rather than chronologically, featuring portrait and landscape paintings exploring identity and migration, an objects gallery with ancient artifacts and modern sculpture, hands-on activities including a simulated archaeological dig, and rotating focus exhibitions on topics from colonial American Je

Things to know

• Over 200 works from the museum's collection displayed across renovated third and fourth floors.
• Features 130+ Hanukkah lamps from antiquity to present, drawn from the museum's world-renowned holdings of 1,000+ lamps.
• Includes works by Mel Bochner, Nicole Eisenman, Eva Hesse, Lee Krasner, Louise Nevelson, Mark Rothko, and Michal Rovner.
• Curated by Darsie Alexander, Claudia Nahson, Kristina Parsons, and Rebecca Frank.
• Pruzan Family Center for Learning includes touch walls, two art studios, and a new salon space with commissioned site-specific works.
• Rotating focus galleries feature exhibitions on colonial American Jewish history, Dor Guez, Walter Benjamin's photography, and Oded Halahmy'

Plan your visit

Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Open Sundays–Mondays and Fridays–Saturdays 11am–6pm; Thursdays 11am–8pm. Group tours available; learn more at TheJewishMuseum.org/GroupVisits. Family and kids' guides available for download.