!!!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 2%%sup nd/%  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 
(1%%sup st/%  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.

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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.

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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.


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