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2018 Annual Report 10 Association of European Jewish Museums BUDAPEST www.aejm.org Annual Report association of european jewish museums Annual 2018 Report Table of Contents Preface 3 Activities 4 Grants 12 Cooperation 16 Communications 19 New Members 20 Board & Staff 21 Supporters 21 Committees 22 Association of European Jewish Museums Annual Report 2 association of european jewish museums AEJM Preface The Association of European Jewish Museums looks back on a successful year in which we organised five programmes at different locations across Europe. All its programmes have been awarded the official label of the European Year of Cultural Heritage. 2018 was the final year that AEJM and the Jewish Museum Berlin were able to benefit from a multiple-year grant from the German Federal Foreign Office, which allowed us to organise ten successful curatorial seminars in five years. The final editions of the Advanced Curatorial Education Pro- gramme were held in Frankfurt and Jerusalem. It is my pleasure to thank our organising team in Vienna, Dr. Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek and Dr. Michaela Feurstein-Prasser, for their enthusiasm and dedication that were key to turning our curatorial seminars into a success. We warmly thank our partners and sponsors, first and foremost the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe for its continuing support. Without the commitment of the following AEJM members as partner institutions, our activities could not have been successful: the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives in Budapest, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, and Museum “Jews in Latvia” in Riga, the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, and The Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The AEJM team was also instrumental in organising all our activities and I would like to thank our team in Amsterdam for all their efforts: Managing Director Eva Koppen, Communication Officer Robbie Schweiger, and Conference Coordinator Nikki Boot. Emile Schrijver Chair Preface Annual Report 3 association of european jewish museums Advanced Curatorial Education ACTIVITIES Programme The Advanced Curatorial Education Programme (A-CEP) is a joint programme initiative of the AEJM and the Jewish Museum Berlin. The programme offers structural learning in the field of Judaica and curatorial practice to curators working at Jewish museums or with Jewish collections across Europe. Since 2014, a grant from the German Federal Foreign Office has enabled the AEJM to organise two intensive 5-day curatorial training sessions per year, offering both theoretical and practical learning through lectures, hands-on workshops and field trips. The programme is led by programme director Dr. Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, assisted by Dr. Michaela Feurstein-Prasser and the AEJM. Curatorial seminar in Frankfurt | photo by AEJM Advanced Curatorial Education Programme Annual Report 4 association of european jewish museums In April, a group of 13 curators from 9 countries closely studied the Judaica collections of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt. The seminar fo- cused on Judaica collections that were created in the period from the second half of the 19th century through to the 1930s as the result of a growing interest in arts and crafts on the one hand, and because the founding of Jewish museums or departments in municipal museums resulted in Judaica becoming a new collection area on the other hand. The Nauheim collection of the hosting venue formed the starting point FRANKFURT of the seminar. The programme has been awarded the label of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018. The intensive 5-day programme included a workshop on brass and pewter objects from the Nauheim collection, in particular Hanukkah lamps, by Dr. Eva Atlan, Head of Collections of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, and Dr. Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek; on metal objects from Posen and Hanau, by Michal Friedlander, Curator Judaica and Applied Arts at the Jewish Museum Berlin; and on conservation issues of metal objects by conservator-restorer Roman Borkowski. The group visited the Weygang-Museum in Öhringen, as well as the Grossmarkthalle Memorial at the European Central Bank and the Börneplatz Memorial and the Jewish Cemetery on Battonnstrasse in Frankfurt. “It was good to study Judaica this time in the context of the production methods, the art market and the collecting history of museums. It was yet another great opportunity to take a time-out from the everyday and see the bigger picture of Jewish ritual items in Europe, learn about various European collections, including improving the knowledge of our own col- lections, increase our research skills and, last but not least, network with a bunch of enthusiastic and fabulous women.” Kathrin Pieren Collections Manager and Curator Jewish Museum London | UK Curatorial seminar in Frankfurt | photos by AEJM Advanced Curatorial Education Programme Annual Report 5 association of european jewish museums In October, a group of 16 curators Sharon Weiser Ferguson, curator from 13 countries attended the final of The Israel Museum, asked par- seminar of AEJM’s 5-year Advanced ticipants to reflect on the questions Curatorial Education Programme, of when the large body of Judaica hosted by The Israel Museum in objects known to us today was de- Jerusalem and focusing on Judaica veloped, the role that religious and objects with European provenance. regional influences in the Modern After curatorial tours of the Jewish period could have played, and the JERUSALEM Art and Life Wing, the Department impact that rising nationalism in the of Israeli Art, and the Archaeology 19th century might have had on the Wing of The Israel Museum, the par- formation of the corpus of Judaica. ticipants attended various hands-on workshops. The programme has The excursion programme brought “These training sessions represented been awarded the label of the Euro- the participants to the U. Nahon for me the most important part of the pean Year of Cultural Heritage 2018. Museum of Italian Art, with its large programme, as the acquired knowledge collection of objects from various is directly applicable for the day-to-day The programme included sessions Italian patrimonies, and to the work in a Jewish museum. It was an on provenance research of Judaica Museum for Islamic Art, where enormous enrichment to compare the objects, with Julie-Marthe Cohen, the group looked at cross-cultural European pieces in the collection of curator of the Jewish Cultural objects in the permanent exhibition The Israel Museum with the ones we Quarter Amsterdam (NL), and on and the temporary “Khamsa, know from European collections and amulets from the private collec- Khamsa, Khamsa” exhibition. former editions of the A-CEPs.” tion of William Gross. In the work- Ram Ozeri, director of The Jerusalem shop The Invention of Judaica, Biennale, introduced the biennale. Dinah Ehrenfreund-Michler Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek and Reseacher at the Jewish Museum of Switzerland | CH Curatorial seminar in Jerusalem | photo by Oleg Kalashnikov Advanced Curatorial Education Programme Annual Report 6 association of european jewish museums Museum Education RIGA Study Visit “The awareness of certain tools, methods A group of 18 educators from 12 countries travelled to Riga (LV) for the and frameworks to further develop exist- Museum Education Study Visit 2018. The programme focussed on com- ing concepts of co-creative programmes munity engagement for museums and also explored the Jewish heritage of is what I took back with me to the Jewish the city. The study visit was organised in close collaboration with Think Tank Museum Frankfurt. Participating in the Creative Museum (LV) and the Museum “Jews in Latvia”. The programme has AEJM Study Visit was inspiring and moti- been awarded the label of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018. vating, and a great opportunity to get to know a network of inspiring and creative Over two days, the participants visited various museums in Riga and met colleagues from all over Europe.” behind the scenes with museum professionals, discussing community en- gagement at the Zanis Lipke Memorial, the Ziedonis Museum, the Latvian Kathrin Schön National Museum of Art, and the National History Museum of Latvia. Head of Education of Colleagues from POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (PL) and the the Jewish Museum Frankfurt Jewish Museum London (UK) presented community engagement projects from their education practice. Ilya Lensky, Director of Museum “Jews in Latvia”, gave a curatorial tour of the Jewish museum as well as a Jewish heritage tour of Riga, visiting the synagogue and lesser known places across town. An optional excursion brought the group to the restored Green Synagogue in Rezekne and the Great Synagogue in Ludza, located in the east of Latvia. Curatorial tour at the museum “Jews in Latvia” | photo Participants of the study visit in Riga on the roof of the by AEJM Latvian National Museum of Art | photo by AEJM Museum Education Study Visit Annual Report 7 association of european jewish museums Jewish Museums Today: Warsaw WARSAW Study Visit In January, the second network meeting focussing on communications at Jewish museums in Europe took place in Warsaw. The exhibition Blood: Uniting & Dividing served as a case study for this study visit. Together with the staff of host POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, 12 museum professionals from 6 European countries explored the various dimensions of the exhibition in relation to visitors, ranging from visitors studies, to communication plans, to events and to special educational programming for adults and children. After a curatorial tour of the exhibition, Katarzyna Krauze, Head of the Marketing Dept., presented an in-depth visitors study, which gave insight into the methodology used as well as the motivations and experiences of visitors in the first 15 weeks. Malgorzata Zajac, Senior Marketing Special- ist, presented the extensive semiotic analysis for Blood: Uniting & Dividing, the search for a good communication strategy, and its references to popular “It was very useful to see how the holistic approach to marketing and research can positively influence the creation of exhibi- tions and communication.
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