MEIS National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah
Timetable
10.00-18.00.
Ticket office close at 17.15.
Closed on Mondays and Jewish holidays.
Prices
- Full price: € 12,00
- Reduced: € 10,00 (6-18 years old, university students)
- Groups: ( from 15 to 25 participants; families with at least one adult and a minor aged 6-18 years: € 6,00
- Schools: € 2,00
- Free:
- children under the age of 6 years,
- disabled with carer,
- MyFe Card holders
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Accessible to people with disabilities.
The Museo Nazionale dell’Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah (National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah) is located in Ferrara, in the former prisons of via Piangipane. During the war, its walls imprisoned antifascist opponents and Jews, including the writer Giorgio Bassani, Matilde Bassani and Corrado Israel De Benedetti.
The challenge was to transform a place of confinement into an open, inclusive space at a short distance from the former Ferrara ghetto.
A place in which to recount over two thousand years of Italian history and share the universal values of open welcome, diversity and dialogue.
The MEIS serves as a bridge between past and present, a space intended for culture, the sharing of ideas and freedom.
The architectural project is still in progress and will include the construction of two other buildings, symbols of the five books of the Torah.
In addition to temporary exhibitions, the MEIS offers a permanent, but constantly evolving, itinerary consisting of various sections:
> "JEWS. AN ITALIAN HISTORY "
The permanent exhibition of the MEIS, which is periodically integrated and renewed, tells the story and experience of the Jews in Italy.
From the first evidence in ancient Rome, the exhibition leads to the Renaissance and the cultural blossoming of the Peninsula. Meetings, disputes, daily life and exchanges are represented through objects, artistic works, multimedia installations, videos and the virtual guide of experts.
> “1938: HUMANITY DENIED”
Permanent exhibition by Giovanni Grasso and Paco Lanciano.
Through the use of multimedia installations that collect vintage images and films and documents, “1938: humanity denied” creates an immersive experience that allows the visitor to come into contact with the drama of racial laws, social exclusion, Nazi-Fascist persecution and extermination.
> "THROUGH THE EYES OF ITALIAN JEWS"
The video, curated by Giovanni Carrada and Simonetta Della Seta, recounts two thousand years in 24 minutes. Viewers will retrace the long and vibrant history of the Jews in Italy and their contribution to the construction of the national identity.
The Garden of questions
A playful and interactive labyrinth to know and learn the rules of Jewish nutrition
Services: bookshop,bookshop, library, classroom, cloakroom
Dogs are not allowed, with the exception of guide dogs for the blind.
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