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Musee d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaisme Review
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Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme
- Address: 71 rue du Temple, Le Marais, Paris | Map It
- Phone: 01-53-01-86-60
- www.mahj.org
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Museum of Jewish Art and History
- Category: Museums/Galleries
- Location: Le Marais
Fodor's Review:
Exhibits at this museum -- housed in what was once the Hôtel St-Aignan, a gorgeous mansion built in 1650 -- have good explanatory texts in English on Jewish history as well as free audioguides. Highlights include 13th-century tombstones excavated in Paris; wooden models of destroyed Eastern European synagogues; a roomful of early paintings by Marc Chagall; and Christian Boltanski's stark, two-part tribute to Shoah (Holocaust) victims in the form of plaques on an outer wall naming the (mainly Jewish) inhabitants of the Hôtel St-Aignan in 1939, and canvas hangings with the personal data of the 13 residents who were deported and died in concentration camps.
- Cost: EUR 6.80
- Open: Sun.-Fri. 11-6
- Metro: Rambuteau or Hotel de Ville
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