Manchester Jewish Museum launches its December trailblazer series next week, meeting the women at the frontline of the UK Jewish Music scene. The December showcase forms part of the series of trailblazer events as Manchester Jewish Museum prepares to reopen in Spring 2021. [adrotate banner=”3″] What Does The Future Sound Like? runs from 10-15 December…
Manchester Jewish Museum is set to present its first ever Festival of Belonging at venues across the city including Central Library and The Lowry. The one week event will feature nights of comedy, theatre, storytelling, films and visual arts. The festival will include events at Manchester Central Library where the Jewish Museum is currently housed…
Manchester Jewish Museum will mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the largest of the Nazi death-camps with two premieres of musical and theatrical performances. The creative performances are based on the real-life experiences and testimonies of Manchester Jewry, refugees and Holocaust survivors and will be staged at Manchester Central…
As building work starts on the major extension of Manchester Jewish Museum, the museum is moving temporarily into the basement of Manchester Central Library. Work will start shortly on the major extension of Manchester Jewish Museum’s historic Cheetham Hill building. The museum is currently housed in a former synagogue on the edge of Manchester city…
Manchester Jewish Museum has announced that it has received a £2.89m National Lottery grant to held with an ambitious £5m development project. The development works will see the museum, housed inside a former synagogue, gouble in size with new galleries, learning spaces, a shop and cafe built whilst the Grade II listed synagogue will be…
Manchester Jewish Museum will host five weeks of action-packed activities for children aged 7 to 14 with Two-Gun Cohen’s Summer Adventure Camp. The activity based Summer Camp takes place on Wednesdays throughout August and is based on the life and exploits of notorious Jewish adventurer Two-Gun Cohen. What will take place at Two-Gun Cohen’s Summer Adventure…
Manchester Jewish Museum is set to hold a month of museum experiments this August, including free admission, a Jewish joke board, a museum choir and Jewish cooking workshops. These experiments are part of the museum’s development project which is being supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) who last year awarded the museum £426,900 to…
Manchester’s Jewish Museum has been named as the 10th best small museum in the UK by The Times. The Museum has been named alongside the likes of the SS Great Britain, Horniman Museum and Norwich Castle in the top 25 small museums across the UK. The announcement comes as Manchester Jewish Museum, one of Manchester’s…
Manchester Jewish Museum has appointed Citizens Design Bureau (CDB) as the architects for its major development project. The lead architect will be CDB founder, Katy Marks, who was a Project Architect for the Stirling Prize winning ‘Liverpool Everyman Theatre’ and was recently nominated as emerging Woman Architect of the Year 2015. Working alongside Katy will…
Manchester Jewish Museum has announced is 2016 Cultural Programme, a mix of live ‘Syna-Gigs’ performed from the heart of the hidden venue. Launching on 27 January, Holocaust Memorial Day, the museum’s first live event of the year invites visitors to experience the museum as never before – transformed into a 1930s Cabaret style club for…
