Jewish Museum

One of the museums located on the famous Fifth Avenue Museum Mile in New York is the Jewish Museum. It is the largest museum in the United States of Jewish art, culture and history.

The history of the museum began in early 1920, when Judge Sulzberger donated his personal collection to the Jewish community as part of the Jewish cultural heritage. Over time, due to the donations of patrons, the collection grew so much that it was allocated a small room.

In 1944, Mrs. Warburg, the wife of a famous philanthropist, gave the museum her house. The building was built in the early XX century in the Gothic French style, in 1968 an extension was added to it.

The main direction of the museum collection reflects the culture and art of the Jewish people, shows the unity of Jews living in different parts of the world.

This is the largest collection in the world. Here you can see paintings, sculptures, archaeological artifacts, in a word, almost everything, from ancient times to modernity.