Jødisk Museum

What Jødisk Museum does

Jødisk Museum, formally Stiftelsen Jødisk Museum i Oslo, is Norway's only dedicated Jewish museum, operating as a private foundation (Stiftelsen) established in 2005 and opened to the public in its permanent form in 2008. The institution is housed in the historic former synagogue at Calmeyers gate 15B in Oslo, a 1921 building whose preservation is central to the museum's identity, and it serves the Norwegian public, the local Jewish community, educational groups, and cultural-heritage tourists. Its core offering is a permanent collection of Jewish heritage artifacts and rotating exhibitions on Norwegian-Jewish history, supplemented by a long-running Stolpersteine memorial program that has placed 757 stumbling-stone memorials since 2010.

The museum is staffed by approximately 7 people, supported by a Friends Association (Venneforeningen) of around 600 members, and recognized with the 2023 Oslo City Culture Prize. Its revenue model combines a multi-tiered public funding base (Oslo Kommune and the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Equality) with diversified but small-scale earned income: admissions priced at 60 NOK (adult) / 40 NOK (student/senior) / 30 NOK (child), membership tiers ranging from 150 to 1,000 NOK across Individual, Family, Student, Senior, and Patron categories, and donations. In 2024 the museum secured 77.3 million NOK from the Ministry of Culture to purchase and restore its 1921 synagogue building, leading to a planned full closure from 1 May 2026 through autumn 2028 for renovation.

From a technology standpoint, the museum operates with standard web and ticketing infrastructure and has no disclosed proprietary technology, data platforms, or AI/ML capabilities. Its value proposition is fundamentally cultural and physical rather than technological: it monetizes heritage, real estate, and public-good preservation rather than software or data products. The dominant strategic question is therefore not product-market fit but revenue continuity through a multi-year closure and post-renovation capacity.

Name

Jødisk Museum

Legal name

STIFTELSEN JØDISK MUSEUM I OSLO

Website

https://jodiskmuseumoslo.no

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Jødisk Museum, Norway's only dedicated Jewish museum, operates as a private foundation in Oslo's 1921 former synagogue, preserving Norwegian-Jewish heritage through exhibitions and a Stolpersteine memorial program, funded by government grants, admissions, and a 600-member association.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cultural Museum Services

NAICS

Museums (712110), Historical Sites (712120), Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (7121)

akta.pro primary industry

History Museums (THAJADAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Religious & Sacred Sites Tours (THAJAAAF), Religious Landmarks & Pilgrimage Sites (Temples, Churches, Shrines) (THAJACAG)

Keywords

• Jewish museum exhibitions
• Holocaust education programs
• Cultural heritage institution
• Museum walking tours
• Memorial cobblestone project

Headquarters

HQ city

Oslo

HQ country

Norway

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Museum admissions: Revenue is generated primarily through ticket sales to adult visitors, seniors/students, and children visiting the museum's exhibitions. School classes are admitted free of charge.
2. Membership fees: The Venneforeningen (Friends Association) generates revenue through annual membership fees at several tiers: individual (275 NOK/year), student (150 NOK/year), family (375 NOK/year), and corporate (1,000 NOK/year). Members receive the newsletter, invitations to events, and a 10% discount at the museum shop.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Jødisk Museum i Oslo operates a Jewish cultural heritage museum located in a former 1921 synagogue at Calmeyers gate 15B in Oslo. It delivers permanent and temporary exhibitions on Jewish life in Norway, Jewish calendar traditions, shtetl heritage, and the Holocaust, alongside guided walking tours, a reference library, school educational programs, and the nationwide Stolpersteine memorial project for Holocaust victims.

Product overview

Jødisk Museum i Oslo is a museum and cultural center offering exhibitions, educational programs, and cultural activities focused on Jewish history and culture in Norway. The museum operates permanent and temporary exhibitions including 'Husk oss til livet' (Holocaust history), 'Det jødiske året' (Jewish calendar and traditions), and 'SHTETL' (Eastern European Jewish heritage). It provides educational services such as school visits, guided walking tours, and the Stolpersteine memorial project with an online database. The museum is currently undergoing renovation with planned reopening in autumn 2028, and maintains a Friends Association membership program with approximately 600 members.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Husk oss til livet – Jews in Norway 1940-45 (Remember Us Unto Life)

Quantifiable outcome

• 757 Stolpersteine placed for Jewish Holocaust victims in Norway since 2010
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Heka EiendomcoreOthers · 1 January 2023Heka Eiendom is the property owner of Calmeyers gate 15B. Stiftelsen Jødisk Museum i Oslo entered into a letter of intent with Heka Eiendom in autumn 2023 to purchase the entire synagogue building where the museum currently rents the first floor and basement. The acquisition is contingent on the museum securing sufficient public funding.
• Gunter Demnig (Stolpersteine artist/project)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2015Gunter Demnig is the German artist who initiated the Stolpersteine project in 1993. He collaborates with Oslo Jewish Museum and Jewish Museum Trondheim to place memorial cobblestones in memory of Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Norway. The project was brought to Norway in collaboration with German author and journalist Raimund Wolfert.
• Jødisk Museum i TrondheimcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2010Jødisk Museum i Trondheim and Jødisk Museum i Oslo collaborate as co-coordinators for the Stolpersteine (memorial cobblestone) project for Jewish victims of the Holocaust deported from Norway. The project began in 2010, and together they are responsible for the placement and coordination of memorial stones across Norway. As of 2024, over 757 Stolpersteine have been placed.
• Nansen Fredssenter (Nansen Peace Centre) i LillehammerminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe museum collaborated with Nansen Fredssenter in Lillehammer to develop the educational program 'Snublesteiner og antisemittisme' (Memorial Stones and Antisemitism). This walking teaching program allows teachers to conduct city tours in their own neighbourhoods related to the Holocaust and Jewish victims in Norway.
• Det Mosaiske Trossamfund (DMT)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDet Mosaiske Trossamfund is the Jewish congregation in Oslo. DMT appoints one member to the jury of the museum's annual Culture Prize. The museum also has a longstanding relationship with DMT regarding the former synagogue building at Calmeyers gate 15B, which was originally built for Den Israelitiske Menighed (DIM) before the two congregations merged.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Falstad Center (Falstad senter): Direct peer — Norwegian human-rights and Holocaust remembrance center; operates comparable educational programs for Norwegian schools and engages on WWII/Nazi victim memory, though with a broader human-rights framing.
• Anne Frank House: Direct peer — Amsterdam museum dedicated to Jewish history and the Holocaust, with comparable educational mission, school-visit programs, and small-staff operating model.
• Jødisk Museum Trondheim: Direct peer — the only other dedicated Jewish museum in Norway, co-coordinator of the Stolpersteine project with Jødisk Museum i Oslo since 2010. Operates in the same niche (Jewish history in Norway) with comparable educational programming.
• POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews: Direct peer — national museum covering 1,000 years of Jewish history in Poland, with temporary exhibitions, educational programs, and a strong school-visit focus analogous to Jødisk Museum's curriculum-driven programming.
• Jewish Museum Berlin: Direct peer — one of the largest Jewish museums in Europe, comparable as a cultural-heritage institution dedicated to Jewish history and the Holocaust, with permanent exhibitions, educational programs, and a research/output library.
• Jüdisches Museum Wien (Jewish Museum Vienna): Direct peer — Vienna's Jewish museum covering Jewish history, religion, and the Holocaust with exhibitions, educational programs, and a comparable central European cultural-heritage focus.
• Jewish Museum London: Direct peer — UK-based Jewish heritage museum with permanent and temporary exhibitions, Holocaust education, and school programs analogous to Oslo's offering.

Broad incumbents

• Yad Vashem: Broad incumbent — the world's primary Holocaust memorial and research institution; not a direct competitor but a recognized authority whose work defines the category Jødisk Museum operates in, and a potential research/collaboration partner.

Regional players

• Holocaust-senteret (now part of Stiftelsen Norsk Folkemuseum's Holocaustmuseum): Regional counterpart — Norway's principal Holocaust-focused museum at Bygdøy, Oslo; provides overlapping Holocaust education programming and is a natural partner/peer for Norwegian school-curriculum Holocaust teaching.

Others

• Det Mosaiske Trossamfund (DMT) — Oslo Jewish Community: Adjacent community stakeholder — the Oslo Jewish congregation, deeply intertwined with the museum through building history, board representation, and award partnerships; a key collaborator rather than a competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/jodiskmuseum
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Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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