London Jewish Museum to close indefinitely and look for new location
June 23, 2023

Benedict Johnson Photography
The Judaica room at the London Jewish Museum shows some of the museum's 40,000 or so Jewish objects.
LONDON (JTA) - London's Jewish Museum is to close indefinitely next month and begin hunting for a new home for its collection of 40,000 objects, one of the largest of its kind in Europe.
The rising costs of maintaining its current premises in northwest London and a difficult fundraising environment exacerbated an already precarious financial situation for the museum, its chairman Nick Viner told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The Jewish Museum intends to close its doors at the end of June and be out of its current building on Albert Street by the end of the year.
Viner said that the museum...
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