Museu d'Història dels Jueus in Girona - Micvé

A visit to the Museu d'Història dels Jueus in Girona. We almost missed it the first time going past it, and we had to go the long way round before we found the museum. Was also another Jewish related site near the Museu I Arx U d'Historia de la Ciuta.

It is located on Carrer de la Força. They had flowers on the roof top terrace as the Temps de Flors was on at the time.

The Jewish History Museum of Girona is located in the center of Bonastruc ça Porta, in the middle of the Call de Girona . The building is located in the space of the call that had occupied the synagogue and the dependencies adjacent to the 15th century. As an institution, the museum is responsible for preserving and disseminating the history of the Jewish communities of Catalonia , which contributed to the cultural and scientific development of the country.

The museum is located at the same site as the Nahmànides Institute of Studies, where research projects of Jewish Girona are being developed and dissemination with scientific programs, conferences, courses and other activities. Both institutions are governed by the Patronat of the Call of Girona, created in 1992 between the City Council of Girona , the Diputació de Girona and the Generalitat de Catalunya . The space also houses the offices of the Jewish Network of Spain.

In the place where the museum is nowadays, the last synagogue of the Girona Call was originally located, from which some parts have been recovered between 2012 and 2015, such as the ritual bath or micva. After the Alhambra Decree ordered the expulsion of the Jews, from the year 1492 the building was sold and since then it was passed into private hands until the decade of the 80s of the twentieth century, moment in which the rehabilitation process began.

In the early 1990s, the Girona City Council and the Call de Girona Trust considered it necessary to create a study center and a museum organization that was responsible for recovering, studying and publicizing the memory collective of the Jewish community in the Catalan territory and in the same city of Girona .

The architectural project had two phases: in the month of July of the year 2000 a first phase of the rooms of the museum was inaugurated, and in December 2012 a space dedicated to the temporary exhibitions was enabled, to the ground floor of the building. Since 2003, Sílvia Planas has held the position of director of the museum.

In spite of the difficulty of preserving objects of the Catalan Jewish community, due to cultural, political and more than five hundred years, the museum has a collection of pieces that show the rich Hebrew culture. On the first floor, inaugurated in 2003, the Jewish culture, its daily life, its religion, its liturgy and its celebrations are explained, and we can find archaeological and architectural vestiges, such as the funeral tombstones with Jewish inscriptions from the Jewish cemetery of Montjuïc or the micva , Jewish ritual bath.

On the second floor, open to the public from 2007, there is talk of cultural, economic and scientific aspects of the Jewish communities in Catalonia, with names such as the maestro gironí Mossé ben Nahman or the astronomer Jacob ben David Bonjorn. The speech is accompanied by original jewels, containers and documents, as well as reproductions of stamps and facsimiles of medical books, among others.

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Taken in: Spain / Catalonia / Girona (show map)

Taken on: May 16, 2019

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