The December 15 Museumgoer story in the New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune visits the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, 818 Howard Avenue in New Orleans, where I interviewed Kenneth Hoffman, executive director, about the new Southern Jewish Family Research Center. (Read the story here.)
To the museum’s excellent main-floor galleries the research center adds areas for artifact conservation and digitization, a vault to hold archival collections, a studio for recording oral histories and distance learning programs, as well as a reading room and reference library. It also adds a new gallery for changing exhibits, where the exhibition “Greetings from Main Street – Southern Jewish Postcards from Our Collection” has debuted. A Museumgoer Podcast interview with Hoffman and Michael Jacobs, MSJE’s collections & exhibits curator, is here.
Or just listen here:
This is an exciting new chapter for one of the gems of the New Orleans museum scene. Below are some photos that accompany the podcast.
The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience history galleries span 13 states and 350 years.
To those galleries, MSJE has added the Southern Jewish Family Research Center, which includes studio space for recording oral histories and originating distance learning, as well as a reading room, archive space, and more.
A new space for changing exhibitions adjoins the research center. The exhibit “Greetings from Main Street – Southern Jewish Postcards from Our Collection” is now on view there.
Another view of “Greetings from Main Street.”
Special thanks to Kenneth and Michael (the curator is pictured above, at the research center’s opening reception) and to you for reading and maybe listening.
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