Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
Editorials & Other Articles
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
New Capital Jewish Museum Features 'Notorious RBG' Exhibit -- And The City's Oldest Synagogue
DCist
JUN 5, 2023, 2:34 PM
New Capital Jewish Museum Features ‘Notorious RBG’ Exhibit — And The City’s Oldest Synagogue
Elliot C. Williams
The Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum opens at 575 3rd St NW on June 9, with the original Adas Israel Synagogue attached.
Elliot Williams / DCist/WAMU
Four years ago, D.C.’s oldest synagogue hit the road, literally, moving a block down G Street NW on wheels that carried it at 1 mph to its current location on the corner of 3rd and F streets NW. The hope among the Adas Israel congregation it belonged to was that it would be the third and final move for the historic sanctuary and that the site would be home to a new museum that explores the multilayered story of Jewish life in the capital region.
That hope is now a reality. When the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum finally opens Friday, it will present over 24,000 photos, 1,050 objects, and interactive storytelling from more than a century and a half of local Jewish history.
The museum near Judiciary Square was designed by SmithGroup, which has worked on other popular D.C. museums, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. The structure combines the original red brick synagogue building with a modern one linked via glass footbridge.
The museum will offer something different from the United States Holocaust Museum and the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, both also located in D.C., its leaders say. Until now, D.C. hasn’t had a museum to tell the story of the roughly 300,000 Jews who live in and around the nation’s capital and the generations before them that have come and gone.
{snip}
JUN 5, 2023, 2:34 PM
New Capital Jewish Museum Features ‘Notorious RBG’ Exhibit — And The City’s Oldest Synagogue
Elliot C. Williams
The Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum opens at 575 3rd St NW on June 9, with the original Adas Israel Synagogue attached.
Elliot Williams / DCist/WAMU
Four years ago, D.C.’s oldest synagogue hit the road, literally, moving a block down G Street NW on wheels that carried it at 1 mph to its current location on the corner of 3rd and F streets NW. The hope among the Adas Israel congregation it belonged to was that it would be the third and final move for the historic sanctuary and that the site would be home to a new museum that explores the multilayered story of Jewish life in the capital region.
That hope is now a reality. When the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum finally opens Friday, it will present over 24,000 photos, 1,050 objects, and interactive storytelling from more than a century and a half of local Jewish history.
The museum near Judiciary Square was designed by SmithGroup, which has worked on other popular D.C. museums, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. The structure combines the original red brick synagogue building with a modern one linked via glass footbridge.
The museum will offer something different from the United States Holocaust Museum and the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, both also located in D.C., its leaders say. Until now, D.C. hasn’t had a museum to tell the story of the roughly 300,000 Jews who live in and around the nation’s capital and the generations before them that have come and gone.
{snip}