jüdische Museen#

Jewish Museums: In 1895 the first Jewish Museums worldwide was established in Vienna. The collection was housed at various locations, the last being in the 2nd district of Vienna, and documented the cultural and historical development of Austrian Jewry. In 1938 the museum was closed down by the Nazi authorities and the collection was removed to the Ethnological Museum. After 1945, it was given back to the Vienna Jewish Community, which established a temporary museum in the 1960s. In 1989 the "Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna" was founded; since 1993 it has been located in Eskeles Palace (1st  district of Vienna, Dorotheergasse). In addition to the Max Berger Judaica Collection, the museum is in possession of most of the objects which belonged to the Jewish Museum before 1938, as well as religious and ritual objects from the destroyed synagogues of Vienna and Burgenland.

In Eisenstadt in the province of Burgenland, the "Austrian Jewish Museum ", located in the former Wertheimer House, has been in existence since 1982, with a permanent exhibition about the history and culture of the Jews in Austria, particularly in Burgenland.

Since 1991 a third Jewish Museum has been located in the Heimann-Rosenthal Villa in Hohenems (Vorarlberg); the museum has a permanent exhibition on the history of Jewry in the province of Vorarlberg as well as a specialised library.