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Marks Camden museum’s 75th
anniversary… The Prince of Wales and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall visited the Jewish Museum in Camden Town on Tuesday 13 February to help mark the Museum’s 75th Anniversary. Prince Charles has become Patron of the Jewish Museum in support of the celebrations, this being his first patronage of a Jewish organisation and his first visit to the Museum’s flagship location. The Prince and Princess toured the Museum’s galleries, including the History Gallery and the Religion Gallery, which houses one of the world’s finest collections of Jewish ceremonial art and awarded Designated status by the Museums Libraries and Archives Council for its outstanding national importance. They also saw the special exhibition Champion of the Child - Janusz Korczak, which tells the inspiring story of a pioneering Polish Jewish doctor, writer and educator who was a leading advocate for children’s rights and devoted himself to their needs and plight, regardless of nationality and religion. |
PRINCE CHARLES BECOMES PATRON TO JEWISH MUSEUM
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The royal pair met
local schoolchildren as well as hearing about the Museum’s exciting Development Project, for which it has been awarded a Development grant and an approval in principle totalling £4.2 million by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The project will triple the space available in Camden Town, combining the Finchley museum with the existing site and creating enlarged exhibition galleries, new education facilities, a state-of-the-art auditorium, hands-on displays for children and a café. The expanded museum, due to open in 2009, will provide London with a world-class, vibrant, forward- |
looking museum of regional, national and international significance. Rickie Burman, Director of the Jewish Museum, told Call Sign: "We are honoured and privileged that His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has most graciously agreed to be our Patron for this anniversary year and delighted that both he and the Duchess of Cornwall were able to visit The Jewish Museum. It is a welcome recognition of the Museum’s importance in highlighting the heritage of one of Britain’s oldest minority communities and in contributing to interfaith understanding and dialogue." |
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