The Jewish Museum London has been given almost quarter of a million pounds lottery funding to continue its work while it searches for a new home.
The £231,000 grant will allow it to work as a museum without walls loaning parts of its collection around the country and running school and community events after it closed its former home in Camden in July to put it up for sale.
Chair of its Trustees Nick Viner said the support would allow it to “expand” its work, adding: “Jewish Museum London exists to celebrate the UK’s diverse Jewish community and heritage. Now more than ever we need to foster understanding between all cultures.”
The museum, which moved to Camden in 2010, was set up after the merger of several different museums based in east and north London.
Acting Director Sue Shave said the grant would have “a huge impact” on the museum’s future plans.
She added: “Our visitor engagement from this broader presence will increase from 28,000 people a year coming to the Camden Museum to a potential audience of 155,000 people per year including schools and communitygroups, reaching people in different regions around the UK with physical andonline collections for the first time.”
It has recently loaned works to the Museum of London Docklands as well as the newly opened Faith Museum in the northeast of England while temporary displays are planned for Swiss Cottage library and a synagogue in Bradford.
Among its previous exhibitions were shows dedicated to the impact of Jewish tailors on the fashion scene, the life of Amy Winehouse and the work of doctor Ludwig Guttmann who founded the Paralympic Games.
