Now I am going to miss going to the Manchester Jewish Museum while its new extension is built over the next 18 months.*
But when it is finished the museum will have doubled in size, with new galleries, learning spaces, shop and café built in the extension alongside the existing historic building. And at the same time the Grade II listed synagogue, will be repaired and restored.
During that period the museum will be based in Central Ref with activities being held in other venues across Greater Manchester.
“A new pop up Jewish Museum will be created in the Central Reference Library ... with its own space on the lower grand floor near the Children’s Library and next to the Ahmed Iqbal Ulla Race Relations Resource Centre.
The Museum’s collection will also be moved into Central Library’s archive before returning to an environmentally controlled store in the new Manchester Jewish Museum”.**
All of this is against a backdrop in the rise of recorded anti-Semetic incidents. In 2017 CST recorded 1,382 such incidents in the UK - the highest total ever recorded for a calendar year. Three-quarters of these were in London and Greater Manchester. In Greater Manchester 261 were recorded, which is an increase of 27% from the 206 incidents recorded in 2016.***
Location; Manchester
Picture; Central Ref, 2016, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*Manchester Jewish Museum, http://www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/
**MJM News Issue 15, Spring/Summer 2018
***CST, https://cst.org.uk/
During that period the museum will be based in Central Ref with activities being held in other venues across Greater Manchester.
“A new pop up Jewish Museum will be created in the Central Reference Library ... with its own space on the lower grand floor near the Children’s Library and next to the Ahmed Iqbal Ulla Race Relations Resource Centre.
The Museum’s collection will also be moved into Central Library’s archive before returning to an environmentally controlled store in the new Manchester Jewish Museum”.**
All of this is against a backdrop in the rise of recorded anti-Semetic incidents. In 2017 CST recorded 1,382 such incidents in the UK - the highest total ever recorded for a calendar year. Three-quarters of these were in London and Greater Manchester. In Greater Manchester 261 were recorded, which is an increase of 27% from the 206 incidents recorded in 2016.***
Location; Manchester
Picture; Central Ref, 2016, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*Manchester Jewish Museum, http://www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/
**MJM News Issue 15, Spring/Summer 2018
***CST, https://cst.org.uk/
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