daily, starting from Thursday, February 23, 2017 - 11:00, until Sunday, July 30, 2017 - 23:59
Max Wechsler’s donation of works to the mahJ consecrates the long dialogue between the museum and the artist, awarded the Prix Maratier by the Fondation Pro mahJ in 2003.
daily, starting from Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - 11:00, until Sunday, May 28, 2017 - 23:59
“A Jewish child encounters hate on his tenth birthday. I was that child.”
Albert Cohen, 1972
“[…] in 2015, I felt the need to reread O Humans, My Brothers, and I was even more powerfully struck by the terrible psychological ordeal of this young boy wandering on the verge of madness, by the message of Albert Cohen’s last testament...”
daily, starting from Sunday, July 3, 2011 - 10:00, until Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 23:59
Inviting artists, designers and architects to intervene in the context of a museum collection or historic monument is now a widespread practice, and a perilous but stimulating exercise. Our aim since the museum opened in 1998 has been to constitute a contemporary collection out of these ‘encounters’, that is, to work on a long-term basis with Jewish and non-Jewish artists, always in a spirit of open-mindedness, to create resonances with the objects and themes in the permanent collection.
