On Tuesday, September 17, a guided tour is scheduled, led by Vincenza Maugeri, director of the facility.
Booking is required (051 2911280 – 051 6569003 – info@museoebraicobo.it).
The extraordinary finds of one of the largest medieval Jewish cemeteries in the world, found some years ago in Bologna in Via Orfeo, not far from the fourteenth-century walls, are finally visible after years of studies and restorations in an exhibition that intends to tell the story of the Jewish community town in the centuries of its greatest splendor.
THE HOUSE OF LIFE. Ori and Stories around the ancient Jewish cemetery of Bologna, curated and organized by the Jewish Museum of Bologna, the Archaeological Superintendence, fine arts and landscape of the Metropolitan City of Bologna and with the collaboration of the Jewish Community of Bologna, is the exhibition inaugurated Thursday 20 June 2019 and will remain open to the public until 6 January 2020.
Gold jewels of exceptional workmanship and beauty, engraved stones, bronze objects recovered in over four hundred burials, attest to the presence in Bologna of a thriving community, profitably inserted in the urban and social context up to the expulsion, which took place at the behest of the Pope in 1569 , and offer the opportunity to retrace, in a global and systematic way, the history of a minority, its uses, its culture and its interactions with the Christian society of the time.
About seventy or so are the finds re-emerged from the underground to give testimony of a place whose existence was known but now all traces have been lost, to raise questions and to reawaken once again the curiosity towards one of the most interesting and enigmatic era in history Italian culture.
Exhibition times at the Jewish Museum of Bologna: from Sunday to Thursday 10 am – 5.30 pm – Friday 10 am – 3.30 pm – Saturday and Jewish holidays closed.
Entry € 7.00 whole | € 5.00 reduced
