Description of the attraction
Galicia Jewish Museum is a museum in Krakow dedicated to Jewish culture in Galicia. The museum is located in the former Jewish quarter of Kazimierz. The museum was founded in 2004 at the initiative of British photojournalist Chris Schwartz and University of Birmingham professor Jonathan Weber in memory of the Jews who inhabited Galicia before the Holocaust.
After the death of Chris Schwartz in 2007, Kate Craddy became the director of the museum, and in 2010 she was replaced by Jakub Novakovsky. The main languages of the museum remain English and Polish. Currently, the museum receives about 30 thousand visitors annually.
The main exposition of the museum is called "Traces of Memory" dedicated to the flourishing of Jewish culture in the territory of former Galicia (southern Poland). For 12 years, Schwartz and Webber have collected symbols of Jewish life, photographs of cemeteries, synagogues and Jewish architecture. The exhibition is divided into five sections, representing different stages of the Jewish past, including the Holocaust. Part of the exhibition is dedicated to the Auschwitz concentration camp. In 2008, the museum opened a new exhibition entitled "Polish Heroes", which tells about the righteous of the peoples of the world.
In addition to guided tours, the museum hosts meetings, seminars and educational events, as well as temporary exhibitions.
