Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki

The Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki ( Greek Evraiko Mousio Thessaloniki Εβραϊκό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης, Ladino Museo de Djudio Salonik ) is ( next to the Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens and the small Jewish Museum of Rhodes ) is one of three Jewish museums in Greece. It shows a part of the history of the once Jewish-dominated metropolis of Thessaloniki and the Sephardic Jews, see Jewish Community of Thessaloniki.

History

The museum was first opened in the former Jewish quarter of the city in 1997 and made ​​(next to the Museum of Contemporary Art ) is one of the Museum 's initiatives to European Capital of Culture dar. basis of the collection formed the Photo Collection of Simon Marks and the sacral objects of the Sephardic community. Under its present name and as an institution, there is a museum since 2001. Located in a former office building of the Banque d' Athénes, which was designed in 1904 by Vitaliano Poselli.