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Now Open: Shaping Space, Making Meaning
The new temporary exhibition at the National Museum of American Jewish History, offers visitors the opportunity to learn how a museum creates a major exhibition and at the same time have input into developing the show prior to opening. The NMAJH's exhibition design team is now in the process of creating the 22,000-square-foot exhibition for the new Museum now under construction and scheduled to open in 2010.

Featured Artifact

Featured Artifact: Seltzer Bottle, ca. 1910-1940
This seltzer bottle is the second in a series of artifacts that will be featured regularly here, illustrating objects in the NMAJH Registry of Jewish Americana, a digital catalog of artifacts, documents and photographs from collections around the country.
 
  Previous Exhibtions
  
Forshpeis!: A Taste of the Peter H. Schweitzer Collection of Jewish Americana
The exhibition explores the role food played in helping immigrant Jews adjust to life in the United States
Franlklin Benjamin Franklin and Religious Liberty 
Benjamin Franklin’s relationship with the Jewish community and his role in forging a pluralistic America.
Jewish boxing Sting Like a Maccabee
This exhibition spotlights artifacts from a time when Jewish boxers dominated the sport.

Theatrical Realism: The Art of Inez Storer
Storer’s work is known for its autobiographical themes and personal narratives.
Creating American Jews
Explore the evolution of Jewish identity in America.
From Generation to Generation
Bernard Mendoza's photo-documentary of Orthodox Jewish communities across the United States.
Passages: An Immigrant's Journey
Beth Grossman's illustrations of her great-grandmother's journey from Ukraine to a new life in the United States.
A Soldier's Story: Intimate Artifacts of WW2
Photographs by Judy Gelles pay tribute to Jewish GIs. Sign the World War II Honor Roll!
Still Home: The Jews of South Philadelphia
Photographs and interviews by Harvey Finkle document the life stories of those Jews who have clung to this fabled immigrant neighborhood.
Picture This! Children's Book Illustrations
A sampling of the best illustrated Jewish literature for children produced in the 1990s. Send in your own interpretation of an illustration!
Past Perfect
The Jewish Experience In Early 20th Century Postcards. Send a New Year card to an online friend!
With Eyes Toward Zion: The Political Cartoons of Noah Bee
The work of syndicated political cartoonist Noah Bee.
Galut
These photographic portraits by Mark Berghash tell us that in the Galut (the Hebrew word for Diaspora), Jewish identity has many meanings.
Holy Land
American encounters with the land of Israel in the century before statehood.
Too Jewish?
Challenging traditional identities.
The Road to Maus
Art Spiegelman's stunning comic-book account of his parents' experiences in the Holocaust was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
History of Exhibitions
From 1976 to 1999.
Collection Highlights
A few of the many objects in the Museum's permanent collection.
 		  
 







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