Museum of Jewish Culture

The Museum of Jewish Culture is a branch of the Slovak National Museum and was established in 1993. It is located in a house which survived the destruction of Bratislava’s historic Jewish neighborhood in the 1960s, when the SNP Bridge was constructed. The eighteenth-century Baroque Zsigray Mansion was rebuilt in the nineteenth century and since 1994 has been the seat of the museum’s permanent exhibition. Here you will find a display of valuable Judaica, and evidence of the vibrant life and traditions of Slovak Jewry. The most famous items in the museum collection are two valuable Chevra Kadisha jugs from the western Slovak town of Senica. A memorial hall with the names of important Jewish personalities of Slovak descent and an installation recreating a small synagogue sanctuary are other highlights of the exhibition.