Museum Judenplatz Vienna

The Center of Jewish life 

Judenplatz was the center of Jewish life in Vienna in the Middle Ages. The Museum Judenplatz, which opened in 2000 as the second location of the Jewish Museum Vienna, is a reminder of this. Since March 2021, the new permanent exhibition "Our Middle Ages! The First Jewish Community in Vienna" provides insights into everyday life in the Middle Ages and tells of the history of Judenplatz as an urban place.

Schoa-Memorial on Judenplatz

Current archaeological and architectural research as well as the latest technologies make both the excavation of the synagogue destroyed in 1421 in the Viennese Gesera and the topography of the Jewish quarter tangible. For centuries after 1421, the traces of Jewish life in this place were hardly in the consciousness of the city. It was only around the erection of the memorial to the Austrian Jewish victims of the Shoah, designed by Rachel Whiteread, that the remains of the medieval synagogue were discovered and, after years of debate, made accessible by the newly established Judenplatz Museum.

Current exhibitions

Everything forgotten - 28.01.2026 - 17.09.2026
In Hebrew, the words lishkoach – to forget – and koach, which means both power and strength, rhyme, as if revealing the dual nature of forgetting. From a cultural-historical perspective, the exhibition “Forget Everything” explores the power, but also the powerlessness, of forgetting and asks whether it merely signifies loss or can also be liberation.

No Way Home: Viennese Jews in Exile - 29.09.2026 - 04.04.2027
After the Anschluss on March 12, 1938, Vienna became a model city for the systematic expulsion of Jews. In a very short time, the third-largest Jewish community in Europe was almost completely wiped out through emigration, deportation, and murder. For those who were able to flee abroad, this meant the loss of their bourgeois existence, their possessions, and their homeland.

Your Benefit with EasyCityPass Vienna: 2 € discount on the regular admission fee*

*The discount can only be redeemed on-site at the checkout! Closed for Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur.