Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris
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About Museum of Jewish Art and History
The Museum of Jewish Art and History occupies the Hôtel de Saint-Aignan, a 17th-century aristocratic mansion built between 1644 and 1650 in the heart of the Marais district. The museum opened in 1998 as the successor to the Musée d'Art juif, founded in 1948 by Holocaust survivors. Its collection spans over 12,000 works from antiquity to the present day, including medieval funerary stelae, the Isaac Strauss collection of ceremonial objects, and paintings by Chagall and Modigliani.
Museum of Jewish Art and History — Planning Your Visit
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Museum Entry
RecommendedIncludes permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. Non-EU visitors aged 18-25 pay reduced rate of 9€. Free on the first Saturday of each month (October-June, permanent collection only).
Guided Tour
90-minute guided tour in French. Advance booking recommended. Reduced rate also applies to Friends of mahJ members and refugees with OFPRA documentation.
Artist Christian Boltanski created a permanent installation in a small courtyard listing the names of all inhabitants of the Hôtel de Saint-Aignan on the eve of World War II. Thirteen Jewish residents of the building were arrested during the 1942 Vichy roundups and murdered in Nazi death camps. The work lists both Jewish and non-Jewish tenants, documenting ordinary people who lived here before the deportations.
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