Museo Nazionale dell'Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah (Meis)

The vicissitudes of the Jews of Italy, most of which are little known to the public.

This museum was established by a 2003 law, and it has been open since 2017. The fame acquired by some novels by the writer Giorgio Bassani, Jewish and from Ferrara, in particular "The Garden of the F...

Great - and still a work in progress

Italy’s national Museum of Judaism and the Shoah was originally designated for Rome but the Parliament ultimately moved it to Ferrara which has a significant Jewish history and community in its own ri...

Imaginative displays and good contextualisation

Well laid out and contextualised. Does anyone wonder why the security is so super rigorous. Plus ca change. Lots to read. We needed about 3 hours including seeing free films and ambling round garde...

A must see

First of all, kudos to the Italian State for funding this museum all by itself (not the EU, and not private donors, either), and in the right place, namely in the city of Ferrara, perhaps the friendli...

A missed opportunity

We visited the MEIS (Museo Nazionale dell’Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah) in Ferrara. We had looked forward to this visit because we have a special interest in Jewish history and knew that Ferrara h...