The only museum to present a full survey of Jewish culture,
history and religion in the Netherlands is Amsterdam's Jewish
Historical Museum. Its motto is Seeing leads to remembering,
and remembering leads to doing. The museum's task is to
preserve, manage and present Jewish cultural heritage for as wide a
public as possible.
To meet the challenge of imbuing this historical heritage with
fresh meaning for a contemporary audience, the museum is
continually developing new activities. Numerous projects,
exhibitions, events and plans are constantly being developed to
reach as wide as possible a public, Jewish and non-Jewish, Dutch
and international. The highly successful children's museum, for
example, is seen by every Dutch schoolchild.
While the Jewish Historical Museum is a government subsidised museum, the government only provides enough funding for the museum to carry out its basic tasks: keeping the building open and paying the salaries. Every activity, including all the exhibitions, has to be financed from other sources.
If you want to support the museum, there are several options: