page_title: Galicia Jewish Museum
section_title: Exhibitions
hierarchical_section_title: Galicia Jewish Museum / Exhibitions
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Klezmer Musik im Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakau Polski: Zespół Klezzmates w Żydowskim Muzeum Galicja w Krakowie
context_page_description: The Galicia Jewish Museum is located in the historic Jewish district of Kazimierz in Kraków, Poland. It is a photo exhibition documenting the remnants of Jewish culture and life in Polish Galicia, which used to be very vibrant in this area.
context_section_description: The main exhibition of the Museum, Traces of Memory, is the result of a twelve-year collaboration between photographer and museum founder Chris Schwarz and British scholar Jonathan Webber. It commemorates the 800-year Jewish presence in western Galicia (today's southeastern Poland) through contemporary photographs of synagogues, cemeteries and other relics of the Jewish presence in the region still visible today. The exhibition is divided into five sections, representing different ways of approaching the Jewish past in Polish Galicia: Jewish Life in Ruins, Jewish Culture as it Once Was, The Holocaust: Sites of Massacre and Destruction, How the Past is Being Remembered and People Making Memory Today. A part of the exhibition is dedicated to Auschwitz concentration camp.
  In 2008, the Museum collaborated with the Auschwitz Jewish Center to create the exhibition Polish Heroes, which focuses on the Polish Righteous Among the Nations. Today, the exhibition can be seen in six museums across Poland, England and the United States.
  The Galicia Jewish Museum has two permanent exhibition spaces, and hosts two to three temporary exhibitions covering a range of materials that complement the mission of the museum, curated both in-house and sourced externally, and including modern art on Jewish themes. The Museum is also the venue of choice for many international travelling exhibitions coming to Central Europe for the first time, and is an experienced tour manager for exhibitions travelling in both Poland and overseas.
caption: Klezmer concert at the Museum (2009)
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