The latest addition to the myriad of museums in Moscow has just opened. Among the first visitors to the new Jewish Museum and the Center of Tolerance were Israeli President Shimon Peres and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
The museum occupies over 8,500 square meters on the Moscow Bakhmetyevsky Garage which was formerly an art gallery run by socialite Dasha Zhukova.
The Jewish Museum and the Center of Tolerance features permanent and temporary exhibitions, conference halls, a library, a research center, a children’s center, a museum shop, and a kosher cafe. It boasts twelve pavilions with a 4D cinema located at its entrance.
Categories: Culture and Traditions, Education, Europe, Jewish Faith, Russia
Well, after all most of the early communists were Jewish. Naturally they should have a prominent place in Moscow.