While there have been plans for a Jewish Museum dating back as far as 1928, the project did not gain significant momentum until the early 1980s when gallery owner Richard Grimm opened a private Jewish museum in a small space on Maximilianstraße.
虽然早在1928年就有建立犹太博物馆的计划，但直到1980年代初，才有画廊所有者理查德·格林在马克西米利安大街一个小空间开设了一个私人犹太博物馆。