Manchester Jewish Museum

The entire museum team wishes you and your families a peaceful holiday season and a joyous Chanukah, filled with light and love. Your support over the past year has been more important than ever.

On the evening of Thursday, 5 December, Manchester Jewish Museum invites all food lovers and culture enthusiasts to embark on a one-of-a-kind culinary journey with “The Table”, an intimate evening dining event that promises to tantalise the tastebuds and ignite the imagination.

On Thursday, 31 October, the museum will welcome Irit Dekel, a talented singer-songwriter whose gentle music spans various eclectic genres, from folky jazz to indie alternative. In this interview we talked about what inspires Dekel to write and compose and what we can expect from her upcoming show as part of Synagogue Nights. 

We are excited to announce our 2024 programme of our audiences’ much-loved Synagogue Nights: a series of intimate performances in our 150-year old former Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue. Starting this October, you can see theatre shows and live music, with shows celebrating Jewish art in all its diversity.

After 16 years of taking care of the museum’s vast collection and being a custodian of their 150-year old Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, Manchester Jewish Museum Curator and Deputy Chief Executive Alex Cropper will hand over to Josh Jones to continue documenting the stories of Manchester’s Jewish communities.

On Mother’s Day, Sunday, 10 March, Manchester Jewish Museum will welcome Noga Ritter, an Israel-born, London-based eclectic singer-songwriter, for a performance in the museum’s 150-year-old Spanish & Portuguese synagogue. Noga’s new album “Ima” (Hebrew for “mother”) is her debut solo album, dedicated to the artist’s mother, “a healer, mover and true artist”.

We would like to invite everyone, of all ages and backgrounds, to our Museum Open Day on Sunday, January 28th to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.