The Museum of Jewish History in Russia strives to reconstruct a comprehensive picture of Jewish life in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, with all its varied cultural, social, and political forms.

    At a time when the last material traces of these historical Jewish cultures are disappearing in front of our eyes, the Museum sees this as one of its most crucial tasks into preserving that heritage.

    The museum's exhibitions showcase a complete historical outlook on Russian Jewry, which allow to include ethnographic items and materials on the history of Jewish education and the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment), the most characteristic Jewish professions and Jewish agricultural colonies, interrelations with state authorities and political struggles, secular culture, music, and literature in both Yiddish and Hebrew, and Jewish participation in wars waged by the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union