Current 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.
October 1943
Traveling exhibition and film about the fate of the Danish Jews
On the night between 1 and 2 October 1943, the German occupying power in Denmark organized a raid to capture and deport the Jews in Denmark.
More than 7.000 men, women and children had to hide. The vast majority of Jews were helped to Sweden with the help of Danish non-Jews after risky escape attempts. But almost 500 of them were captured and deported to it
Jewish ghetto in Theresienstadt.
The exhibition tells about all this.
Concept was created by Simon Kratholm Ankjærgaard and Dr. Christian Schölzel
You can see the film in the cinema at the Danish Jewish Museum from 23 October 2024 until 2 March 2025.
THE GATEWAY TO DENMARK
Jewish life in the 1700th century
"The Gate to Denmark" is one of our permanent exhibitions and is about the establishment of Jewish life and culture in Denmark in the 1700th century.
The exhibition introduces the new communication tools for the future permanent exhibition at the museum. It is a glimpse into the Danish Jewish Museum of the future, which you can help shape through your comments and input. At the same time, it also marks the 400th anniversary of Jewish life in Denmark.
The exhibition opened in 2022.
You can read more about the exhibition here
FLIGHT AND PURSUIT
in the 20th century
The Danish Jewish Museum welcomes you to a deeply moving and thought-provoking special exhibition that sheds light on a dark period in the history of Denmark and Europe as a whole. "Flight and Persecution in the 20th century" tells a European story about the flight and persecution of Jews to and from Denmark from the end of the 1800th century up to the present day.
The exhibition is built around a number of unique objects that represent different chapters of history, and which are brought to life through drawings. Kristian Bay Kirk's powerful illustrations bring the story to life and delve into the emotional layers of fear, hope and courage that have shaped the tale of escape and persecution.
The special exhibition is not just a look into the past. It is a confrontation with the appalling realities that people have faced and a call to reflect on how these events shape our understanding of tolerance and humanity.
The exhibition opened in 2022 and will be experienced at the Danish Jewish Museum in the coming years.
You can read more about the exhibition here
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. Do you have questions or want more information? We are ready to help you delve into the many stories and details.
Citrus and palm leaves
– a holiday in a cabin
2022
You are currently standing inside a sukkah. This is how the exhibition text for this year's cultural night at the Danish Jewish Museum began. Here we erected a large pavilion and invited everyone inside the pavilion on the forecourt for a pop-up exhibition about the Jewish holiday Sukkot.
You can read our blog post about the exhibition here
From Chanukkah to Christmas
- light parties 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 exhibition was at the Danish Jewish Museum in December 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 in a neighboring room to the museum's permanent exhibition and was open from 2013-2017. In 2020, the museum has published a catalog of the exhibition which can be purchased in the museum shop.
THE END OF THE NIGHT
- a virtual reality movie
2022-2024
Take 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.
Watch the trailer here
