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from 04-10-2026

Starting Monday, October 5, our Museum opens for the 14th season of the "Museums. Parks. Manors" School Tournament - a joint venture of the city's Departments of Education and Culture.

To keep yourself informed we strongly recommend reviewing the particulars on our page in the Tournament catalogue before your visit.
Please note that participation at our Museum is open only to students in grades 8–9 and 10–11, which means that parents and other adults are not allowed to assist participants on the spot. That includes all communication with museum staff and “helping to write down the answers”. For the same reasons we don't combine guided tours with on-sight round of the Tournament. 
Registered participants must first solve the remote round to get a participant code that unlocks the on-sight round In the Museum. 
Visiting hours for tournament participants are 12:00 to 19:00 PM on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Prior booking by phone 8 (495) 656-45-71 is required due to the Museum's limited space.
All relevant information is available at the “Museums. Parks. Manors" School tournament website https://museum.cpm.moscow/museums/169. Our own website will also reflect the updates.
new Exhibit

Assistant attorney receives clients at the given address

from 19-03-2026

The items in the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Jewish History in Russia represent only a small portion of our collection and undergo a careful selection process. But this time it didn’t involve any hesitation, as the new exhibit directly relates to the Jewish community of Moscow, our hometown. Entering the museum hall, specially dedicated to this topic, visitors immediately are usually struck by an expressive portrait of the patriarch of Moscow Jewry – Chief Rabbi Yaakov Mazeh.
The plaque bearing the inscription "Assistant Attorney Yaakov Isaevich Maze" is not only a biographical detail from the life of a great man, but also an important testimony to the Jewish life beyond the Pale of Settlement. Yaakov Maze was born in Mogilev, into a religious family with ties to both the Lubavitch Hasidim and their opponents. This environment provided the boy with a very solid Jewish education, but in the second half of the 19th century this did no longer suffice for many young men. Read more...
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Military oath of allegiance for the Jews
1900s Chromolithograph on paper. 23 х 15.
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Case for a Torah scroll
Late 19 – early 20 cent. Wood, velvet, leather, and copper with embossing; freshwater pearls and semi-precious stones. Height: 55.7; diameter: 23.
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Tar and kamancha, stringed musical instruments used by the Mountain Jews
First half of 20 cent. Wood. Tar: 86.5 х 15.8 х 16.5. Kamancha: 72.8 х 16 х 17.
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Woman’s holiday khalat – ‘kaltach’
First quarter of 20 cent. Blue satin, adras, and calico. 123 х 71; sleeve length: 51.
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Set of dishes for blessings over wine during the Passover seder
Second half of 19 cent. Embossed silver. Saucer: diameter: 13. Small cups (5 items; shaped as piyalas): Height: 3.5; diameter: 5. Large cup (shaped as piyala): height: 4.5; diameter: 8.5.
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Sketch of the costume of kuni-leml for a production of the theater "Kunst-Vinkl" after the A. Goldfaden's play "The Two Kuni-Lemls"
The mid. 1920's Indian ink and pencil on paper. 36 х 26,3.
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Sketch for the play "Stempenyu" by Sholem Aleichem
1966 Lithography. 75 х 52,5.
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Items for daily use manufactured by Jews in the partisan units of Polesie Belarus. Overshoes
1942 – 1944