Our Home. In 1944, Frieda Schiff Warburg, widow of the prominent
businessman and philanthropist, Felix Warburg, donated the family
mansion on Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street for use as the Museum. Located
along New York\'s prestigious Museum Mile, this elegant landmark
structure, in the style of a French Gothic chateau, has been our home since 1947. In 1993 an ambitious expansion and renovation
project doubled the gallery space, added a glorious permanent
exhibition, created classrooms and an auditorium for educational
programs, and improved public amenities, including a café.
Our Collection. Through more than 28,000 objects including painting,
sculpture, works on paper, photographs, archaeological artifacts,
ceremonial objects, and broadcast media, the Museum\'s collection
demonstrates Jewish identity and its evolution through visual art. It is one of the largest, most extensive collections of its kind
in the Western Hemisphere.
This new web site supports the Museum\'s mission by bringing exhibitions, collections, educational programming and scholarship to a
global audience, thus fulfilling two important institutional goals - to
significantly enhance the quality of the visitor experience, and to
communicate with and serve new audiences on-site, off-site, and on-line.
We send a special thank you to Rob Kaplan, Museum trustee, for his leadership
gift to the Centennial Campaign in honor of his parents. A
portion of that gift has funded this new web site as we enter our next century of service.
