Temporary Museum Closure

The health and safety of our visitors and staff is the Jewish Museum’s priority. Due to heightened concern regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19), the Jewish Museum is temporarily closed. Public programs, tours, and classes will take place online. During this time, we will continue to monitor the situation and determine the need for continued closure.

Thank you for your support and understanding. We invite you to explore the Museum from home with our Mobile Tours and Online Collection.

Hours and Admission

The Jewish Museum is temporarily closed.

  • Galleries

       
    Sunday 11 am - 5:45 pm
    Monday 11 am - 5:45 pm
    Tuesday 11 am - 5:45 pm
    Wednesday Closed
    Thursday 11 am - 8 pm
    Friday 11 am - 5:45 pm
    Saturday 11 am - 5:45 pm

    See What's on View

  • Shop

       
    Sunday 11 am - 5:45 pm
    Monday 11 am - 5:45 pm
    Tuesday 11 am - 5:45 pm
    Wednesday 11 am - 3 pm
    Thursday 11 am - 8 pm
    Friday 11 am - 5:45 pm
    Saturday Closed

    Shop Online

  • Dining

    Take-Out Restaurant
    Sunday 9 am - 5:45 pm 9 am - 5:45 pm
    Monday 9 am - 5:45 pm 11 am - 4 pm
    Tuesday 9 am - 5:45 pm 11 am - 4 pm
    Wednesday Closed Closed
    Thursday 9 am - 8 pm 11 am - 4 pm
    Friday 9 am - 5:45 pm 11 am - 4 pm
    Saturday Closed 10 am - 4 pm*

    View Menu

    *Pre-paid reservations required.

  • Ticket Pricing

    Adults $18
    Seniors, 65 and over $12
    Students $8
    Children, 18 and under Free
    Members Free
    Saturdays Free
    Buy Tickets

    The Jewish Museum offers free admission for active duty personnel members and their families year-round, and is a proud member of Blue Star Museums.

    Free admission available for visitors with Federal Disability identification.

  • Saturdays & Free Admission Days

    In Judaism, Saturday is the Sabbath, a day of rest, free from the concerns of schedules, everyday work, and commerce. In observance of the Sabbath, admission is free on Saturdays, as well as on select Jewish holidays, including:

    •    Passover: April 9, 10, 15, and 16, 2020
    •    Shavuot: May 29 and 30, 2020
    •    Sukkot: October 3 and 4, 2020
    •    Shemini Atzeret: October 10, 2020
    •    Simchat Torah: October 11, 2020

    Made possible by the Neubauer Family Foundation.

    Russ & Daughters at the Jewish Museum is open on Saturdays for prepaid and prix fixe Kosher brunch. Advance reservations required. The Restaurant and Take-Out Appetizing Counter are closed on Jewish holidays.

  • Holidays

    The Museum will observe national holidays as follows:

    • Thanksgiving Day: Thursday, November 26, 2020 (Closed)
    • December 25: Friday, December 25, 2020 (Open 11 am to 5 pm)
    • New Year's Eve: Thursday, December 31, 2020 (Open 11 am to 4 pm)
    • New Year's Day: Friday, January 1, 2021 (Open 11 am to 5 pm)
    • Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Monday, January 18, 2021 (Open 11 am to 5:45 pm)
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    The Museum is closed on Wednesdays and the following Jewish holidays:

    • Rosh Hashanah Eve: Friday, September 18, 2020 (Closing at 3 pm)
    • Rosh Hashanah: Saturday, September 19, 2020 (Closed)
    • Rosh Hashanah: Sunday, September 20, 2020 (Closed)
    • Yom Kippur Eve: Sunday, September 27, 2020 (Closing at 2 pm)
    • Yom Kippur: Monday, September 28, 2020 (Closed)
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Directions and Parking

The Jewish Museum
1109 5th Ave at 92nd St
New York, NY 10128

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The Jewish Museum
1109 5th Ave at 92nd St
New York, NY 10128
212.423.3200
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The following parking garages are within walking distance from the Museum. Both offer discount parking to visitors of the Jewish Museum. Tickets must be validated by the Jewish Museum admissions desk.

Gallery Tours and Visitor Guides

Gallery Tours

Jewish Museum educators lead hour-long tours of past and current exhibitions. Tours will be available for the public with advance registration. A schedule of tours and classes will be posted in July.

Private Tours

Plan a unique and unforgettable museum experience for your group. Arrange for a virtual guided tour of one of our current or upcoming exhibitions.

School and Camp Groups
For children in grades Pre-K through 12, choose a tour that explores the Museum's current exhibitions. All programs can be modified for groups with special needs.
Explore Tours for Schools and Tours for Camp Groups

University Groups
University groups can experience the Museum with a virtual exhibition tour or studio workshop.
Explore University Groups

Adult Groups
Jewish museum educators lead 45-minute virtual tours of current exhibitions.
Explore Adult Group Tours

Audio Guides
Discover a new way of exploring the Jewish Museum through the voices of artists, scholars, rabbis, and more at Tours.TheJewishMuseum.org on any smartphone, or borrow a free device at the admissions desk.

Audio guides from current and past exhibitions are also available online through SoundCloud.

Accessibility

Visitors Who Have Mobility Impairments

  • Accessible elevators are located on Floor 1 behind the admissions desk. All floors, including dining and gallery levels, are accessible for people using mobility aids or who need to avoid stairs.

    A wheelchair-accessible entrance to the Museum is located immediately to the right of the main entrance off Fifth Avenue on 92nd Street.

    All public restrooms include accessible facilities.

    Standard wheelchairs are available on a limited basis to reserve no more than 24 hours in advance by calling 212.423.3213. Upon arriving at the Museum, please advise the lobby security guard that a wheelchair was reserved, and it will be made available.

Visitors Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision

  • The Museum provides a variety of programming for people who are blind or have low vision.

  • Multisensory Verbal Description Tours of exhibitions are offered on select Wednesday afternoons. To learn more, please check out our Access Programs.

    Private group verbal description tours are available for a minimum of five people upon request at least four weeks in advance.

  • A tactile book featuring raised drawings and Braille is available for tours exploring select works of art in the Museum’s collection.

    To request a tour, please email access@thejm.org or call 212.423.3289.

  • Large print labels for temporary exhibitions are available at the entrance to the galleries.

Note: Lighting in the galleries may be dimmed to protect the art.

Visitors Who Are Deaf or Have Hearing Loss

  • Assistive listening devices—along with receivers and headsets or neck loops—are available for public programs taking place in Scheuer Auditorium and in the galleries.  Please email access@thejm.org or call 212.423.3289. Relay calls are welcome.

  • The admissions desk, coat check, Cooper Shop, and Millstein Gallery (Floor 3) are each equipped with induction hearing loops that transmit directly to T-coil compatible hearing aids—please switch your hearing aid to “T”. 

  • Tours of temporary exhibitions conducted in American Sign Language are offered on select Thursday evenings. To learn more, please check out our Access Programs.

  • A sign language interpreter is available for most Public Programs upon request at least four weeks in advance. Please email access@thejm.org or call 212.423.3289. Relay calls are welcome.

  • Videos without sound are labeled “no sound,” and those with spoken words have open captioning.

  • Service animals are welcome.

Note: Appointments for private tours should be made at least two weeks in advance.

Explore our Access Programs

Tips and Guidelines

When You Arrive

  • We want the Museum to be a safe place, which is why everyone has to be checked by security. It’s quick and the guards are friendly.
  • Are you carrying a backpack, umbrella, shopping bag, or any bag bigger than 11 x 14 inches? Unburden yourself at our coatroom. You’ll enjoy your visit more with a lighter load and less chance of bumping into valuable artwork.
  • Why bother lugging your laptop or suitcase? We can’t hold them for you and luggage isn’t allowed inside the building.
  • For more information on security, please call 212.423.3213.

Special Assistance

Wheelchairs are available and may be reserved at the Museum in advance by calling 212.423.3213.

Click here for information about the Museum’s other accommodations and programs.

Mobile Devices

  • Feel free to text, tweet, or listen to audio tours during your visit. As a courtesy to other visitors, we ask that you please set your phone to vibrate and take all voice calls outside of the galleries. For the best service, connect to our free WiFi (Museum Visitor WiFi) during your visit.

Protecting the Art

  • We know visiting museums can really work up an appetite, but eating and drinking in the galleries just isn’t kosher.
  • The artists in our exhibitions use every kind of media—ink, paint, charcoal, gouache, etc. If you’re feeling inspired while you’re here, please write or sketch in pencil!
  • Non-flash photography is permitted for personal, noncommercial use except where noted. Flash photography, videography, and the use of tripods are not permitted.
  • If you’ve ever ridden on a crowded bus or subway car, you know the value of personal space. We hope you’ll honor the artworks by keeping a safe distance.

Free Admission Days

  • In Judaism, Saturday is the Sabbath, a day of rest, free from the concerns of schedules, everyday work, and commerce. For this reason interactive exhibition elements, audio guides, and our Shop are not available. In observance of the Sabbath, admission is free on Saturdays, as well as on select Jewish holidays.
  • Russ & Daughters at the Jewish Museum is open on Saturdays for prepaid and prix fixe Kosher brunch. Advance reservations required. The Restaurant and Take-Out Appetizing Counter are closed on Jewish holidays.

Visiting with Small Children

  • We love having kids visit, however there may not be enough room for strollers in the special exhibition galleries. Umbrella strollers are welcome in the rest of the Museum and a limited number are available for loan from the coat room.
  • For more tips for visiting with kids, click here.

Lost and Found

  • Missing something? Visitors who have lost items should call 212.423.3213.

Russ & Daughters at the Jewish Museum Restaurant & Appetizing Counter

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Hours

Take-Out Restaurant
Sunday 9 am - 5:45 pm 9 am - 5:45 pm
Monday 9 am - 5:45 pm 11 am - 4 pm
Tuesday 9 am - 5:45 pm 11 am - 4 pm
Wednesday Closed Closed
Thursday 9 am - 8 pm 11 am - 4 pm
Friday 9 am - 5:45 pm 11 am - 4 pm
Saturday Closed 10 am - 4 pm*

Russ & Daughters at the Jewish Museum is temporarily closed.

Russ & Daughters continues to serve the community as a food provider. For Manhattan delivery or pick-up, call Russ & Daughters downtown: 212.475.4880 (ext. 1). Note: not all items are certified kosher. More information at russanddaughters.com.

About Russ & Daughters at the Jewish Museum

After more than a century on the Lower East Side, Russ & Daughters, the New York City culinary landmark famous for their bagels and lox, smoked fish, and traditional baked goods, opened a restaurant and take-out appetizing counter at the Jewish Museum, on the Upper East Side. Presenting appetizing classics with timeless appeal in the Museum’s beautiful and historic setting, it’s a match that is, as they say, bashert (meant-to-be)!

Russ & Daughters at the Jewish Museum is the perfect place to nosh during your visit. The restaurant also offers a popular book-ahead Saturday Shabbat Brunch, and private event rentals for any occasion, including weddings, brises, and bar and bat mitzvahs. Catering and delivery orders of their world-famous food are also available, from generous platters to just a bissel.

The restaurant at the Jewish Museum is made possible by The Weissman Family, the Jewish Museum Board of Trustees through the Strategic Transition Fund, Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation, an anonymous gift, Mimi & Barry Alperin in honor of their parents Max & Ruth Alperin and David & Vera Fish, and the family of Joseph L. Mailman.

Saturday Reservations

Finally, lox without the lines! Russ & Daughters at the Jewish Museum now accepts brunch reservations on Saturdays. The legendary appetizing emporium’s uptown location will feature a completely kosher, pre-paid set menu on Saturdays, allowing guests to experience a true day of rest in accordance with Sabbath observance. A set menu served family-style includes an appetizing platter, an assortment of breads and bagels, pickles, and desserts, all designed to share.

Pre-paid reservations required and can be made up to three weeks in advance and are accepted until 11:45 pm on Friday for each Saturday. Saturday Restaurant hours are 10 am – 4 pm. The Take-Out and Appetizing Counter is closed Saturdays. Please note that Jewish Museum member discounts are not valid on Saturdays.

Maximum table size is 8 people. Need room for the whole tribe? For information on hosting a private event or larger party on a Saturday, email jewishmuseum@russanddaughters.com.

FAQ

  • When visiting Russ & Daughters at the Jewish Museum, please enter through the main museum security entrance and proceed down to the basement level.
  • Food and drink are not permitted in Museum galleries.
  • Russ & Daughters at the Jewish Museum is Kosher, supervised by National Kosher Supervision, under the auspices of Rabbi Aaron Mehlman.
  • Jewish Museum members receive a 10% discount on all purchases except on Saturdays. We hope to offer this additional benefit in the near future.
  • Reservations are not accepted, except on Saturdays. Reservations for pre-paid, pre-set menu Saturday brunch can be made up to three weeks in advance and are accepted until 11:45 pm on Friday for each Saturday. Cancellations will be accepted until 6 pm on the Wednesday before your reservation date.
  • The restaurant is wheelchair accessible.
  • While a children’s menu is not available, many items are kid friendly. Strollers are permitted.
  • The entire restaurant space as well as a 20-seat private dining area are available for rental. For more information call 212.423.3216 or email rentals@thejm.org.
  • If you are not within the online delivery area, call the counter and place your order for delivery over the phone: 212.475.4880, ext. 3.