The Museum welcomes participants of the "Museums. Parks. Manors." School Competition

from 07-10-2025

The 13th season of "Museums. Parks. Manors" School Competition has now been launched! Our Museum will join it and open its doors for eager participants on Friday, October 10th.
We strongly advise students to familiarize themselves with the rules of admission and conduct on the Museum premises before registering as a competitor at our Museum. 
The participants' age categories we accept are exclusive to 8th-9th and 10th-11th grades! Participants are welcome to visit on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 12:00 PM to 7:00 PM. Prior booking by phone 8 (495) 656-45-71 is required. One can participate in the competition on-site only AFTER completing our Museums' online quiz. All the relevant information will also be published on the "Museums. Parks. Manors." website. Before registering, please review this information on the Museum's page there: https://museum.cpm.moscow/museums/169 or on our own website: www.mievr.ru.
"Museums. Parks. Manors." School Competition is organized jointly by the Municipal Departments of Education and Culture. The Museum for Jewish History in Russia does not provide answer sheets or register new competition participants.

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An exhibition dedicated to Jewish wedding customs has opened in Moscow

from 26-11-2025

On November 26th, the exhibition "Jewish Wedding: For Each Other Since the Beginning of Time" opened in the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center. Our Museum of Jewish History in Russia and The Russian Museum of Ethnography are partners in this project. The exhibition’s curators' intention has been to showcase, through the symbolism of traditional wedding rituals and the ancient customs of the Jewish people, the concept of marriage and the meaning of family. 
Retaining the marriage and weddings part of the permanent exhibition, our Museum of Jewish History in Russia has contributed a loan of over 40 collection items to the newly opened exhibition. Among them are unique examples of 19th and 20th century marriage contracts from various Jewish communities, jewelry and elements of Mountain and Bukharan Jewish wedding costumes, a large collection of engagement and wedding invitations, and lithographs by Issachar Ber Ryback and Mane Katz.
However, in the spotlight of the "Jewish Wedding: For Each Other Since the Beginning of Time" exhibition stands the beautiful chuppah from our Museum's collection – a traditional wedding canopy, familiar to many only from the cinema, under which the rabbi "blesses" the bride and groom.
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Military oath of allegiance for the Jews
1900s Chromolithograph on paper. 23 х 15.
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Case for a Torah scroll
Late 19 – early 20 cent. Wood, velvet, leather, and copper with embossing; freshwater pearls and semi-precious stones. Height: 55.7; diameter: 23.
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Tar and kamancha, stringed musical instruments used by the Mountain Jews
First half of 20 cent. Wood. Tar: 86.5 х 15.8 х 16.5. Kamancha: 72.8 х 16 х 17.
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Woman’s holiday khalat – ‘kaltach’
First quarter of 20 cent. Blue satin, adras, and calico. 123 х 71; sleeve length: 51.
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Set of dishes for blessings over wine during the Passover seder
Second half of 19 cent. Embossed silver. Saucer: diameter: 13. Small cups (5 items; shaped as piyalas): Height: 3.5; diameter: 5. Large cup (shaped as piyala): height: 4.5; diameter: 8.5.
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Sketch of the costume of kuni-leml for a production of the theater "Kunst-Vinkl" after the A. Goldfaden's play "The Two Kuni-Lemls"
The mid. 1920's Indian ink and pencil on paper. 36 х 26,3.
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Sketch for the play "Stempenyu" by Sholem Aleichem
1966 Lithography. 75 х 52,5.
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Items for daily use manufactured by Jews in the partisan units of Polesie Belarus. Overshoes
1942 – 1944