Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
( 041 71 53 59;
www.museoebraico.it
; Campo del Ghetto Nuovo 2902b; adult/reduced €3/2;
10am-7pm Sun-Fri except Jewish holidays Jun-Sep, to 6pm Oct-May; Guglie)
At the Ghetto's
heart, the Jewish Museum explores the history of Venice's Jewish community through
everyday artefacts, and showcases its pivotal contributions to Venetian, Italian and world
history. Opened in 1955, the museum has a small collection of finely worked silverware
and other Judaica art objects, as well as early books published during the Renaissance.
Entry to the museum is included with tickets for guided synagogue tours, and you can also
enquire here about tours to the
Antico Cimitero Israelitico
(Old Jewish Cemetery) on the
Lido.
Hour-long English-language
tours
(tours incl admission adult/reduced €8.50/7; 4 tours daily
from 10.30am)
lead inside three of the Ghetto's seven tiny synagogues: the 1528
Schola Te-
descha
(German Synagogue), with a gilded, elliptical women's gallery modelled after an
opera balcony; the 1531
Schola Canton
(French Synagogue), with eight charming land-
scapes taken from biblical parables; and either the simple, dark-wood
Schola Italiana
(Itali-
an Synagogue) or the still-active
Schola Spagnola
(Spanish Synagogue), with interiors at-
tributed to Baldassare Longhena.
