The Jewish Museum of Chicago crafts accessible, multigenerational entry points to diasporic community building, organizing, and cultural art practices.

The museum emerged from several conversations with Jews living in the region about how there is not a museum for contemporary Jewish art in the city or state. While other institutions, such as the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie, might share part of our collective history, we felt that an institution that represents a fuller experience of Jewish memory, life, and legacy was missing from the landscape. 

Museums are not built overnight. We will continue to form a coalition of values-aligned people to shape our mission and offerings. The Jewish Museum of Chicago is a multi-decade project with a goal of a physical brick and mortar home in the future. Together, we are creating a third space needed here in Chicago to resource and inspire us culturally, socially and spiritually.