“The Jewish Museum debuts its reinstalled and reimagined collection galleries and new learning center on October 24, 2025. Marking the most significant renewal to the Jewish Museum in over 30 years, the $14.5-million project encompasses half of the public space within the Museum’s historic Warburg Mansion and centers cultural exchange and discovery as defining elements of the visitor experience. Central to this transformation is the integration of galleries and education spaces open to all on the Museum’s fourth floor, and the debut of a new collection installation and narrative on the third floor, tracing themes that have defined Jewish experience and highlighting histories resonant with those of other cultures.  

Featuring more than 200 works, Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum unfolds across the Museum’s third floor in a thematic and chronologically integrated presentation of its unparalleled holdings. The installation design supports the display of art and objects of vastly varying scale and materiality, from delicate archaeological artifacts and Jewish ceremonial works to large-scale contemporary painting and sculpture. The Museum’s renewed and newly opened fourth floor features the Pruzan Family Center for Learning, where art and objects from the collection are displayed in gallery settings, adjacent to facilities for educational programming and hands-on artmaking. These two floors are joined visually by a renovated double-height gallery crowned by a dramatic, monumentally scaled installation ofmore than 130 Hanukkah lamps from around the world, and from antiquity to the present day, underscoring the central meaning of light as a symbol of enlightenment and hope across cultures.”
— Jewish Museum

“This milestone moment heralds a new chapter for the Jewish Museum. The Museum’s collections and programming have always been distinguished by their unique focus on the myriad manifestations of Jewish culture through the lens of art, offering powerful examples of cultural and artistic exchange. With this reimagining of our collection and education galleries, we hope visitors discover new points of connection and deepen their appreciation of the traditions that have shaped the Jewish experience throughout the global diaspora and in resonance with other cultures,” said James S. Snyder, Helen Goldsmith Menschel Director.

The architectural design of the project was developed by UNS (United Network Studio), Amsterdam, and New Affiliates Architecture, New York, with Method Design, New York, as Architect of Record.