Exhibitions
The Danish Jewish Museum gives you a new look at Danish history. Here you will find 400 years of history about Jewish immigration to Denmark. These are stories about integration, assimilation, conflicts and inclusiveness.
It is all conveyed in a beautiful and challenging architecture designed by the world-famous architect Daniel Libeskind, who is also known as the architect behind the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
The museum contains a permanent exhibition, a special exhibition and a cinema with introductory films.
Previous Exhibitions
The Danish Jewish Museum has a large back catalog of exhibitions, which contains everything from the former permanent exhibition to larger special exhibitions and smaller pop-up exhibitions. We also develop traveling exhibitions, which bring Danish Jewish history out to more people throughout Denmark.
Here is just a taste of the exhibitions we have had the pleasure of presenting.
Left behind. Janina Katz and the Polish Jews in Denmark
2025-2026
The special exhibition tells the story of the arrival of Polish Jews to Denmark 1969-1975 through the prism of the Polish-Danish Jewish writer Janinas Katz.
Janina Katz's story is important, exciting and interesting in its own right. It is also an expression of a more general story about anti-Semitism in Europe and the Cold War, with significance for both Danish history and Danish Jewish history.
The exhibition opened on October 9, 2025 and could be experienced at the Danish Jewish Museum until April 5, 2026.
Jewish life for 400 years
2023-2025
In 2022, 400 years of Jewish life in Denmark were marked. That's why we created a newly developed traveling exhibition that would travel throughout Denmark.
The traveling exhibition visited nine different cities: Copenhagen, Randers, Nakskov, Odense, Fredericia, Helsingør, Aarhus, Aalborg and Horsens, where there is also still physical evidence of Jewish life in the form of burial grounds. In each of the nine cities, a digital walking tour is also offered focusing on the city's Jewish history.
October 1943
2024-2025
On the night of October 1-2, 1943, the German occupation forces in Denmark organized a raid to capture and deport Jews in Denmark after the collaboration policy had collapsed in August of that year. More than 7.000 men, women and children had to go underground and flee. The vast majority of Jews were helped to Sweden with the help of the Danish population. However, almost 500 of them were captured and deported to the Jewish ghetto in Theresienstadt.
The exhibition was created in connection with the celebration of the 80th anniversary. After being shown in several places in Germany, it returned to the Danish Jewish Museum. The exhibition concept was created by Simon Kratholm Ankjærgaard and Dr. Christian Schölzel.
The exhibition could be experienced at the Danish Jewish Museum from October 23, 2024 to March 2, 2025.
THE END OF THE NIGHT
2022-2024
The End of the Night is a VR film. It is a virtual journey through the mind of the aging man Josef, full of painful and fragmented memories of the escape to Sweden in October '43, and all that he had to leave behind.
It is an intense and moving film experience in Daniel Libeskind's sensuous architectural setting, which creates a physical framework for the story of one of the most dramatic moments in Danish history.
Citrus and palm leaves. A holiday in a cabin
2022
You are currently standing inside a sukkah. This is how the exhibition text for the 2022 Culture Night at the Danish Jewish Museum began. Here we erected a large gazebo and invited everyone inside the booth on the forecourt for a pop-up exhibition about the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
From Chanukkah to Christmas. Festivals of Lights in December
2020
The exhibition told about the Jewish holiday Chanukkah. The myth, the history, the traditions and how Jews in Denmark have always had to relate to the all-dominant Christmas.
The pop-up exhibition was at the Danish Jewish Museum in December 2020.
Space and spaciousness
2004-2020
Our previous permanent exhibition at the Danish Jewish Museum displayed a fascinatingly large number of objects.
The exhibition was divided thematically: arrivals, positions, mitzvahs, traditions and promised lands.
Together, it was a story about Danish Jewish history in Denmark for 400 years as a culturally spacious and diverse dimension.
The exhibition was the opening exhibition for the museum and ran from 2004-2020.
HOME. The Aftermath of War and Persecution
2013-2017
The flight of the Danish Jews to Sweden in October 1943 has become world famous. Far less known is the story of the challenges faced by Danish Jews when they returned to Denmark after liberation in 1945. The Danish Jewish Museum made up for this with the special exhibition "Home".
The special exhibition was located in a room adjacent to the museum's permanent exhibition and was open from 2013-2017.
In 2020, the museum published a catalog of the exhibition, which can be purchased in the museum shop.