This museum is a tribute to the monstrous pages of history and an attempt to ask forgiveness from the whole world. The permanent exhibition tells the story of the life of the Jewish community in Frankfurt am Main from the XII century. Special attention is paid to the period of the XIX-XX centuries, associated with the integration and struggle of the Jews.
The main part of the museum's collections is housed on Untermainkai in a historic building — the palace of Baron von Rothschild, who occupied it in the XIX century. The distinguished owner established a public library here, which in the first third of the XX century passed to the municipality. The palace was later reconstructed, and in the 80th year of the last century it was decided to establish a museum of Jewish history there.
The second part of the overall exhibition was organized later, in 1992, after a successful archaeological expedition in the Jewish ghetto. The museum's second building was built next to the excavation site. Here you can see fragments of residential buildings and their foundations, ritual structures, and fountains. Using your imagination, you can picture what this now-destroyed Jewish quarter of the XV-XIII centuries, where Jews lived, was like.
Thus, the main building reflects, above all, the spiritual side of the people's life, while the house at number 10 on Schumacher strasse presents the features of everyday life and customs. In addition, the museum hosts temporary exhibitions of contemporary art — naturally, connected with the main theme.
