Jewish Museum (Manhattan)

The Jewish Museum

The Jewish Museum is housed in the Felix M. Warburg House.
Location in Manhattan
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Established	1904
Location	1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan, New York
Coordinates	40°47′7.4″N 73°57′25.9″W / 40.785389°N 73.957194°W / 40.785389; -73.957194
Type	Art Museum
Architect	C. P. H. Gilbert
Public transit access	Subway: ​​ at 86th Street Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M86
Website	thejewishmuseum.org

The Jewish Museum is an art museum and repository of cultural artifacts, housed at 1109 Fifth Avenue, in the former Felix M. Warburg House, along the Museum Mile on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The first Jewish museum in the United States, as well as the oldest existing Jewish museum in the world, it contains the largest collection of art and Jewish culture excluding Israeli museums, more than 30,000 objects.^[1] While its collection was established in 1904 at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the museum did not open to the public until 1947 when Felix Warburg's widow sold the property to the Seminary.^[2] It focuses both on artifacts of Jewish history and on modern and contemporary art. The museum's collection exhibition, Scenes from the Collection, is supplemented by multiple temporary exhibitions each year.^[3]