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We look forward to welcoming you to the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah. Here is some information and answers to practical questions before your visit.

Tickets

Tickets

The entrance ticket is valid for the entire exhibition route, for the Garden of Questions, for the multimedia show “Through the Eyes of Italian Jews” and for the exhibition “1938: Humanity Denied”.

Groups & Schools

Groups & Schools

We have many visitors and we want to create a good experience where there is room for all our guests. Therefore, all groups must book their visit in advance.

The building

The building

The museum was born in the former prisons of via Piangipane and a short distance from the Jewish ghetto, with the aim of transforming places of isolation and confinement into spaces open to culture and dialogue.

Classrooms

Classrooms

MEIS pays special attention to teaching both adults and children, especially schools, for which it signed a memorandum of understanding in 2017 with the Ministry of Education, University and Research that provides for the organization of conferences, seminars and trips for upper classes.

Garden

Garden

The Garden of questions, with a playful and interactive approach, brings the public closer to Jewish culture through its smells and tastes, satisfies rather widespread curiosities and makes you reflect on the differences, but also on the many analogies, with other traditions. Admission is free and is accessible during the museum’s opening hours.

Library

Library

The MEIS Library collects and preserves national and foreign editorial production on the history of the Jews in Italy. The books can be consulted at the headquarters in Via Piangipane 81, after having requested them from the staff. You can consult the catalog on Bibliofe, specifying Biblioteca MEIS.

Bookshop

Bookshop

In the bookshop there are meetings and events and it is possible to buy books and other material.

 

Food & Drink

Food & Drink

It is forbidden to bring food and drinks into the exhibition halls. There is a food and drink vending machine inside the museum. Soon the building will have a restaurant and a cafeteria open to the public.

Visually impaired

Visually impaired

The MEIS has designed a path for visually impaired people that will be progressively implemented: through the use of tactile cards and thanks to the training of guides it is possible to visit part of the permanent path.

Accessibility

Accessibility

The museum is accessible to strollers and people with reduced mobility in all its parts, without any architectural barriers. Furthermore, the ticket is free for people with disabilities and their companion.

MEIS has created, together with the Fiadda Association, thanks to the ACCESs project (Emilia-Romagna Region), a path accessible to deaf people. Consult the accessibility sheet here (in Italian).

Wardrobe

Wardrobe

The cloakroom is free and backpacks, suitcases and bags larger than 40x35x15 cm must be stored there, as well as medium/large umbrellas and those with a pointed tip, walking sticks – except those used to aid walking, photographic tripods, video cameras, signs and labels of any kind.

Smoke

Smoke

Smoking is prohibited throughout the museum complex. The ban also includes electronic cigarettes.

Parking

Parking

The closest public parking to the museum is named “ex-MOF” and it is located in via Darsena 138, just a 7-minute walk from the museum.

Animals

Animals

Animals are not allowed in the entire building, with the exception of guide dogs for the blind and service dogs for the disabled, certified as providing therapeutic care (pet therapy) with certificates issued by doctors from public health facilities.

Lost property

Lost property

Objects lost and found in the museum spaces are kept for 30 days.
After this period, they will be donated to local charities or thrown away if they are considered to be in poor condition.

To activate the procedure for finding the lost object, you must send an email to info@meisweb.it.

In the message you must indicate your name, surname, telephone number, type of object with description, copy of identification document and date on which the object is presumed to have been lost.
All emails will receive a response within 2 business days.