Jewish Museum

The Jewish Museum in Prague is a museum of Jewish heritage located in Prague, Czech Republic. The Jewish Museum in Prague was founded in 1906 by historian Dr. Hugo Lieben and Dr. Augustin Stein, who later became head of the Prague Jewish Community. The goal was to preserve artifacts from the Prague synagogues demolished during the Urban renewal of the old Jewish Quarter in the beginning of the 20th century.

In 1942 the Nazis regime established the Central Jewish Museum, with the goal of commemorationg the heritage of an exterminated people by collecting notable objects of Jewish ceremonial art. Artifacts were shipped to the museum from all the Jewish communities and synagogues of Bohemia and Moravia. The museum reopened under the post-War Communist government, but began to flourish after the Czech lands were liberated from Communism. Buildings in the Museum's collection in the Prague's Jewish Quarter received significant damage, during the 2002 European floods.